' A real discovery and a wholly enjoyable disc - RICHARD LAW, Opera Cast 'A Donizetti rarity restored to circulation with all of Opera Rara's customary flair'. - PATRICK O'CONNOR, Gramophone '...a wholly enjoyable disc'. - Richard Law, Opera 'Elisabetta Scano is a vivacious heroine' - ANDREW PORTER, International Record Review A one-act opera buffa written for Naples. Donizettis La Romanzesca e luomo nero dates from the same period as Anna Bolena and Lelisir damore when the composers genius was in full flood. The plot satirises the 1830s obsession in Italy with the Gothic and centres on Antonia and her fantasies about the mysterious Man in Black.