| La straniera | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Vincenzo Bellini | |
 Henriette Meric-Lalande as Alaide in the original 1829 production | |
| Librettist | Felice Romani |
| Language | Italian |
| Based on | Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt's novel L'Étrangère |
| Premiere | 14 February 1829 Teatro alla Scala, Milan |
La straniera (The Foreign Woman) is an opera in two acts with music by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on the novel L'Étrangère (2 vols, 1825) by Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt, although writer Herbert Weinstock also adds that it is "more likely [based on] a dramatization of [that novel] in Italian by Giovan Carlo, barone di Cosenza" since he then quotes a letter from Bellini to his friend Francesco Florimo in which he says that Romani "certainly will not follow the play" [suggesting then that they were aware of its existence.][1]
The opera was composed in the autumn of 1828 and premiered on 14 February 1829 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.