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

That other Max — Beerbohm — once composed a mock-Shakespearean skit featuring Lucrezia Borgia, St. Francis of Assisi, Savanarola, Michelangelo and virtually everyone you can think of from the Italian Renaissance.

From Washington Post

After a decade of performing in Europe and Mexico, Ms. Caballé made her U.S. debut on April 20, 1965, substituting for Marilyn Horne in a concert performance of Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia.”

From Washington Post

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

On short notice, Caballe stood in for indisposed American soprano Marilyn Horne in a concert performance in Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia” at New York’s Carnegie Hall and achieved a thunderous success.

From Seattle Times

She had stints with the Basel Opera and Bremen Opera before her international breakthrough in 1965 in Lucrezia Borgia at Carnegie Hall in New York.

From BBC