I Mori di Valenza (The Moors of Valencia) is an opera in four acts composed by Amilcare Ponchielli to a libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni.
Ponchielli began composing the work in 1874, but at the time of his death in 1886, only the piano score for the first three acts and part of the fourth had been completed.
The opera was later revised by Ponchielli's son Annibale and the orchestration and fourth act were completed by Arturo Cadore.
[1][2] The story is set in Valencia in the early 17th century when Philip III decreed the expulsion of the Moriscos (the descendants of the Moors) from Spain.
Although warmly received by the audiences in Monaco, Milan and Cremona, I Mori di Valenza has never been revived.