Maria di Rohan is a melodramma tragico, or tragic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti.

The Italian libretto was written by Salvadore Cammarano, after Lockroy and Edmond Badon's Un duel sous le cardinal de Richelieu, which had played in Paris in 1832.

In newer times, it was staged by the Grand Théâtre de Genève in 2001[1] and by the Donizetti Festival, Bergamo, in 2011.

[4] The story of Maria Di Rohan is both simple (the classic love triangle) and complicated.

The opera is divided into three parts: Unfortunate Consequences of Duels; Not Love But Gratitude; Senseless Revenge.

Maria sings a prayer, Havvi un Dio che in sua clemenza.

He throws the letter and portrait to the floor before Maria and cries out La vita coll’infamia A te, donna infedel / "Life with infamy to you, faithless woman".

Note: Donizetti wrote a culminating cabaletta for Maria, but crossed it out, preferring to end the opera in a distinctly non-bel canto, but highly dramatic manner.