Definitions for "Elvira"
The name Elvira is distinctly European, usually associated in opera with Spaniards. Lorenzo da Ponte took the name and character of Donna Elvira from Molière's play Don Juan; the corresponding lady in Tirso de Molina's Burlador de Sevilla was Isabela, in keeping with commedia dell'arte tradition. Other famous operatic Elviras are the Spanish heroine of Ernani and (improbably) Bellini's Scottish Puritan. In an early commedia dell'arte scenario involving a confrontation between Moors and Europeans, Flaminio Scala's La forsennata prencipessa, Alvira is the name of a Portuguese princess. Elvira was a Spanish town in Roman times, somewhere around modern Granada. Since Anelli used Turkish names for the other Algerians, one must assume that Elvira was intended to be portrayed as a Spanish slave of Mustafà's, not his Turkish or Berber wife.
Keywords:  frazier, kenny, dallas, rogers, song
"Elvira" was the title of a 1970 song performed by Kenny Rogers, written by Dallas Frazier. .