Editing Gaetano Donizetti (section)

====Work in Vienna====
[[File:Carl Wenzel Zajicek 025.jpg|thumb|left|275px|The [[Vienna State Opera|Imperial and Royal Court Opera]], Vienna, 1830]]
Donizetti's obligations in Vienna included overseeing the annual Italian season at the [[Theater am Kärntnertor]] which began in May. Verdi's ''[[Nabucco]]'' (which Donizetti had seen in Milan at its premiere in March 1842 and with which he had been impressed) was featured as part of that season. However, his main preoccupation was to complete the orchestration of ''[[Maria di Rohan]]'', which was accomplished by 13 February for planned performances in June. The season began with a very successful revival of ''Linda di Chamounix''. ''Nabucco'' followed, the first production of a Verdi opera in Vienna. The season also included ''Don Pasquale'' in addition to ''[[The Barber of Seville]]''.<ref name=ASH178-79>{{harvnb|Ashbrook|1982|pp=178–179}}</ref> Finally, ''Maria di Rohan'' was given on 5 June. In reporting the reaction to this opera in a teasing letter to Antonio Vasselli in Rome, he tried to build suspense, stating that "With the utmost sorrow, I must announce to you that last evening I have given my ''Maria di Rohan'' [and he names the singers]. All their talent was not enough to save me from "a sea of [pause, space] – applause....Everything went well. Everything."<ref name=ASH178-79 />