Franz Liszt, a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary based his play on a work by which Lord?
Sardanapale Sardanapale (French for "Sardanapalus"), S.687, is an unfinished opera by Franz Liszt based loosely on the 1821 verse play "Sardanapalus" by Lord Byron.
I due Foscari I due Foscari ("The Two Foscari") is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on a historical play, "The Two Foscari" by Lord Byron.