 Chiara e Serafina

Chiara e Serafina, o I pirati (Chiara and Serafina, or The Pirates) is an "opera semiseria" in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Felice Romani, based on the melodrama "La cisterne" by René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.Donizetti's first opera for La Scala, it was premiered on October 26, 1822, but was not a success.