Lucrezia Borgia

American  

[loo-kret-see-uh bawr-juh, bawr-zhuh, -kree-shuh, loo-kre-tsyah bawr-jah] / luˈkrɛt si ə ˈbɔr dʒə, ˈbɔr ʒə, -ˈkri ʃə, luˈkrɛ tsyɑ ˈbɔr dʒɑ /

noun

1. an opera (1833) by Gaetano Donizetti.

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Borgia, Lucrezia Cultural  

1. A sister of the Italian politician Cesare Borgia and, like him, famous for her treachery.

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Example Sentences

Told during a Zoom interview that Sofia seemed more like Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine de’ Medici than a comic book character, Milioti matter-of-factly says, “That’s certainly incredible company to be in.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024

She had been engaged to fill in that night for an indisposed Marilyn Horne, singing Lucrezia Borgia in a concert production by the American Opera Society at Carnegie Hall.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2018

The child of Lucrezia Borgia and John Chapman would go about spreading poison ivy seeds.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2017

No one blames him, or only partly, for the strange nothingness which is ENO's new Lucrezia Borgia, his first go at directing opera.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2011

When the gondola came down, from which, in the first act of Lucrezia Borgia, the heroine makes her entry, there was breathless attention throughout the house.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.