Melodramma semiserio in three acts. Libretto by Gaetano Rossi. Music by Gaetano Donizetti. First performed on 19 May 1842 at the Kärnthnertortheater in Vienna. Barcelona premiere at the Teatre de la Santa Creu on 20 July 1844. First performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 11 November 1847.

Linda di Chamounix is one of Gaetano Donizetti's mature operas. Written to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi on commission from the Kärnthnertortheater in Vienna, it was premiered there to great acclaim in 1842. It was first seen at the Liceu in 1847, the year of its inauguration, two years before Lucia de Lammermoor. Labelled a «melodramma semiserio», with many traits of comédie larmoyante, it relates the love affair between Linda, a humble peasant's daughter from Chamonix in Savoy (French Alps), and the Viscount de Sirval, the nephew of a wicked feudal lord, who masquerades as «Carlo».  Linda is driven to despair when she learns who Carlo is and that he is engaged to marry to a noble lady. The opera contains one of the «mad scenes» («A consolarmi affrettati») that are so frequent in Donizetti's works (others occur in Lucia di Lammermoor and Torquato Tasso). It comes to the inescapable happy ending, however, with the two lovers singing a joyful duet. 

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