Buca 5 EN – Golf Rossera

HOLE 5

La Favorita

French opera in four acts, staged in 1840 at the Paris Opera; an Italian version was produced in
1842.
Loves and political intrigues at the court of King Alfonso XI of Castile. The novice Fernando loves
Leonora, but discovers that she is the king’s lover; Fernando, disappointed, curses Leonora and
returns to the convent in Santiago de Compostela; while the young man takes his vows, The
beloved arrives, who, now dying, reveals her innocence, obtaining the forgiveness of the only man
she has truly loved.
“… earth and heaven you are for me”
… on the tee area, which seems suspended in the void, as well as the green, which rises close to the
wide valley that looms to the left.