She was no beauty, to judge from a contemporary portrait by Gentile Bellini (the Titian reproduced on the CD box was painted long after her death). But the opera plot, modelled on Halévy’s La reine de ...
Caterina Cornaro, the last queen of Cyprus, will be the subject of a lecture taking place at the Centre of Visual Arts Research (CVAR) – Costas & Rita Severis Foundation in Nicosia on March 19. The ...