For 500 years, Lucrezia Borgia has been portrayed as a femme fatale and one of history's most infamous women, often inspiring ...

When we think of opera's biggest stars and greatest hits, we tend to think of solo arias. But that overlooks another operatic goldmine: duets. Over the years, there have been plenty of classic duet ...

A painting owned by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne has been identified as a portrait of Lucrezia Borgia, an infamous figure of the Italian Renaissance. The oil painting, purchased in ...

Lucrezia Borgia was a cold-hearted bitch, according to author John Faunce. The facts about Lucrezia’s scandalous life as the bastard daughter of Pope Alexander VI are well-documented. The details ...

The painting had baffled every expert on the subject since it came into public view during the 20th century and had always been assumed to be of a young male, because the subject was holding a dagger.

An infamous figure from Italian Renaissance history, Lucrezia Borgia – anti-heroine of Donizetti’s 1833 opera – is remembered (fairly or otherwise) as a notorious poisoner. That’s the characterisation ...

Think murder by poison, and Lucrezia Borgia comes quickly to mind. Willful, beautiful, sexually promiscuous, and by historical reputation ruthless, she was said to rival her brother Cesare and her ...

As the opera ends, Gennaro is dead and Lucrezia (soprano Renee Fleming) mourns with the moving aria "Era desso il figlio mio" -- "He was my son" -- leading directly to the bombastic finale. The ...

Her name has gone down in history as a byword for murder and debauchery. But Lucrezia Borgia’s face has always remained shrouded in myth and mystery. But an art historian has claimed to have solved ...

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