Francesca di Foix

Francesca di Foix
Opera by Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti c. 1835
LibrettistDomenico Gilardoni
LanguageItalian
Based onLife of Françoise de Foix
Premiere
30 May 1831 (1831-05-30)

Francesca di Foix is a melodramma giocoso (comic opera) in one act by Gaetano Donizetti with a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni based on one by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly and Emmanuel Mercier-Dupaty for Henri Montan Berton's 3-act opéra-comique Françoise de Foix, inspired by the life of Françoise de Foix.

It received its first performance on 30 May 1831 at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples.