Deux Hommes et une femme (Two Men and a Woman), also known as Rita, is an opéra comique in one act, composed by Gaetano Donizetti to a French libretto by Gustave Vaëz.

Vaëz quickly created Deux hommes et une femme (Two Men and a Woman), a comic piece in one act consisting of eight musical numbers connected by spoken dialogue.

Although not a great success at the time and only sporadically performed in the 100 years following its premiere, it was revived and warmly received first in Rome in 1955 and then at the Piccola Scala in Milan in 1965.

[2] In 2008 Casa Ricordi published a new critical edition of the score, which restored the original spoken French dialogue and removed the changes which had been made to the work for its posthumous premiere and in subsequent revivals.

The original French version was reconstructed by the Italian musicologists, Paolo A. Rossini and Francesco Bellotto, from a recently discovered manuscript libretto with autograph annotations by Donizetti.

Conducted by Artistic Director Sir Mark Elder, this was the first studio recording of the newly restored critical edition of the score.