As the opera's extended PROLOGUE begins, a young man named Gennaro has returned from Venice with a group of friends. When they leave him alone, Gennaro falls asleep on a bench. A masked woman appears.

Acclaimed soprano Renee Fleming made her long-awaited Washington National Opera debut Saturday in the company’s compelling new production of Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia” at the Kennedy Center ...

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LUCREZIA BORGIA (343 pp.)—Mario Bellonc!—Harcourt, Brace ($5). Who was Lucrezia Borgia? To the incurable readers of melodrama and Sunday supplements, a woman of glowing and ...

Murder, greed, orgies, corruption. The Borgia family did it all, 500 years ago, muscling their way into the papacy in a ruthless bid for power. The notorious family and their sensational exploits have ...

As Pope Alexander VI’s daughter, Lucrezia Borgia enjoyed riches, money and, it turns out, a considerable amount of power for a woman in 15th century Italy. That was one of the reasons British actress ...