The textbook case is in "Lucia di Lammermoor," the Donizetti opera set in 17th-century Scotland.

"Role creators in the Donizetti operas" on opera.stanford.edu.

But at the Saturday matinee, there were newcomers to two of the secondary roles in this light-spirited Donizetti opera.

Is some company planning to release a cabinet-size set of all 66 Donizetti operas next year for the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth?

One can wonder why Balanchine chose music from "Don Sebastian," hardly a major Donizetti opera, but he made it an enjoyably goofy ballet.

The work's orchestral introduction sounds as though it could be the overture to a Donizetti opera, and the solo violin lines are wide-ranging, arialike melodies.

The Met's new production of this Donizetti opera is inept, clueless, scenically dreary and stunningly bad.

"There are, what, 17 Donizetti operas in the repertory today?"

Mr. Volpe said he was delighted that the couple had accepted the offer of the Donizetti opera.

The convenienze are referred to in the Donizetti opera Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali.