question: Which has more acts, Hans Heiling or La favorite?
answer: La Favorite
context: Title: Suzanna Guzmán
  Passage: Suzanna Guzmán (born in East Los Angeles, California) is an American mezzo-soprano and television host.  Currently she is the host of KCET's weekly series "Open Call".  As a singer she has performed with international and American Opera companies as a principal artist: La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera, "La Favorite" in Montpellier, France, and "Goya" at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.  Known for her portrayal of the title role in Carmen for Houston Grand Opera's multimedia production (known as the "MTV "Carmen""), a role she has performed more than 200 times.
  Title: Hans Heiling (mythology)
  Passage: Hans Heiling (Jan Svatoš in Czech) is a legendary person in German and Bohemian mythology.
  Title: Jérusalem
  Passage: Jérusalem is a grand opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi.  The libretto was to be an adaptation and partial translation of the composer's original 1843 Italian opera, "I Lombardi alla prima crociata".  It was the one opera which he regarded as the most suitable for being translated into French and, taking Eugène Scribe's advice, Verdi agreed that a French libretto was to be prepared by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, who had written the libretto for Donizetti's most successful French opera, "La favorite".  The opera received its premiere performance at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris on 26 November 1847.  The maiden production was designed by Paul Lormier (costumes), Charles Séchan, Jules Diéterle and Édouard Desplechin (sets of Act I, Act II, scene 1, Act III scene 1, and Act IV), and Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry (sets for Act II, scene 2 and Act III, scene 2).
  Title: Francesco Dominici (operatic tenor)
  Passage: Francesco Dominici (1885–1968) was an Italian operatic tenor particularly admired for his acting in comedic roles.  He made his professional opera debut as Fernando in Donizetti's "La favorite" at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo in 1914.  He created the role of Prunier in the original 1917 production of Puccini's "La rondine" at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo, a role which he performed at many other opera houses including the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.  Over the next several years he played mostly leading roles at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome including Rodolfo in Puccini's "La Bohème", Fenton in Verdi's "Falstaff", and the Ernesto in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale".  In the early 1920s he joined the roster at La Scala where he began playing more buffo roles than leading roles.  In 1921, he sang the role of doctor Cajus in Verdi's Falstaff at La Scala and in 1922 was Filipeto in the company's first production of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "I quattro rusteghi".  In 1926 he created the role of Emperor Altoum in the original production of Puccini's "Turandot" at La Scala.  In 1929 he went on tour with La Scala to Germany.  Other roles that Dominici performed at La Scala include David in Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", Monostatos in Mozart's "The Magic Flute", and the Neipperg in Umberto Giordano's "Madame Sans-Gêne".  In 1931 he moved to Cuba, where he taught music for many years.  Dominici died in Havana in 1968.
  Title: La favorite
  Passage: La Favorite (The Favourite, sometimes referred to by its Italian title: La favorita) is a grand opera in four acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, based on the play "Le comte de Comminges" by Baculard d'Arnaud.  It premiered on December 2, 1840 at the Académie Royale de Musique (Salle Le Peletier) in Paris, France.
  Title: Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace
  Passage: Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (7 November 1793 – 24 January 1875) was a French navigator famous for his circumnavigation of the globe on board "La Favorite".  He was pivotal in the opening of French trade in the Pacific and was instrumental in the establishment of the Hawaiian Catholic Church.  He achieved the rank of captain.
  Title: Hans Heiling
  Passage: Hans Heiling is a German Romantic opera in 3 acts with prologue by Heinrich Marschner with a libretto by Eduard Devrient, who also sang the title role at the première at the Königliche Hofoper (now Berlin State Opera), Berlin, on 24 May 1833, and went on to become Marschner's most successful opera.  The opera brought the composer a considerable reputation, although this did not materially affect his position in Hanover, where he was music director of the Court Theatre.  Like Marschner's other great success, "Der Vampyr", the plot of "Hans Heiling" makes great use of supernatural elements.  As with several of his operas, "Hans Heiling" is based on a folk legend.
  Title: Corrado Zambelli
  Passage: Corrado Zambelli (3 June 1897 - 1 September 1974) was an Italian classical bass who had an active international singing career in operas and concerts from the 1920s through the 1950s.  He appears on several complete opera recordings, including "Otello" and "Carmen" for His Master's Voice; and "Ernani", "Il trovatore", "La favorite", and "La Gioconda" for Columbia Records.
  Title: Rita (opera)
  Passage: In 1841, while Donizetti was in Paris waiting for the libretto to be completed for a commission by La Scala, he had a chance encounter with Gustave Vaëz, who had co-written the libretti for two of his earlier operas, "Lucie de Lammermoor" (the French version of "Lucia di Lammermoor") and "La favorite".  He asked Vaëz if he could provide a libretto for a short opera to keep him busy while waiting for the La Scala project to advance.  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.  According to Vaëz, Donizetti completed the score in eight days.  However, the Opéra-Comique rejected it and Donizetti then had the libretto translated into Italian for an intended performance at the Teatro del Fondo in Naples.  Following the death of the Teatro del Fondo's impresario, Domenico Barbaja, the Naples performance fell through.  The score, still unperformed, was found in Donizetti's effects when he died in 1848.
  Title: The Favorite
  Passage: "For the opera by Donizetti, see La favorite.  For the stadium in Palermo, Italy, see La Favorita.  For the Canadian early music ensemble, see La Favoritte.  For the Brazilian soap opera, see A Favorita."
citations: La favorite Hans Heiling