'' Monna Vanna'' is an unfinished opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff, after a play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Monna Vanna or Mona Vanna may also refer to: * ''Monna Vanna'', a play by

Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

, the basis of Rachimaninoff's work and other operas: ** ''Monna Vanna'' (Février), 1909 **''Monna Vanna'', by

Emil Ábrányi Emil Ábrányi (22 September 1882 11 February 1970) was a Hungarian composer, conductor, and opera director. Life He was conductor at the Royal Hungarian Opera House from 1911–19, and director there from 1919 to 1920. In 1921, he became th ...

, 1907 * ''Monna Vanna'' (1915 film), an Italian silent film * ''Monna Vanna'' (1916 film), a German-Hungarian silent film directed by Jenő Illés * ''Monna Vanna'' (1922 film), a German silent film * ''Monna Vanna'' (Rossetti), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866 * '' La Joconde nue'', or Monna Vanna, a charcoal drawing by the school of Leonardo da Vinci * ''Monna Vanna'', a nude version of the ''Mona Lisa'' by

Salaì Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, better known as Salaì (1480 – January 19, 1524) was an Italian artist and pupil of Leonardo da Vinci from 1490 to 1518. Salaì entered Leonardo's household at the age of ten. He created paintings under the name ...

(1480–1524) * ''Mona Vanna'', a painting by

Joos van Cleve Joos van Cleve (; also Joos van der Beke; c. 1485–1490 – 1540/1541) was a leading painter active in Antwerp from his arrival there around 1511 until his death in 1540 or 1541. Within Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, he combines the tr ...

(c. 1485–1540) * Monna Vanna, a character in ''

La Vita Nuova ''La Vita Nuova'' (; Italian for "The New Life") or ''Vita Nova'' (Latin title) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and ve ...

'', a 1294 text by Dante * "Monna Vanna (Sweetheart Sublime)", a popular 1928 song by

Phil Boutelje Phil Boutelje (August 6, 1895, in Philadelphia – July 29, 1979, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an American pianist, songwriter, composer, author and conductor. Biography Boutelje received specialized music training at the Philadelphia Musi ...

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