Adriana Lecouvreur is an account in music of the circumstances that led to the suspected murder of a star of the Comédie-Française. Verismo prides itself on its realism, but rarely are its operas ...

Ten years after its last performance at the Lirico in Naples, Francesco Cilea’s 'Adriana Lecouvreur' returns to the stage of ...

Premiered two years after Puccini’s Tosca, Francesco Cilea’s romantic melodrama Adriana Lecouvreur is similar in one aspect, ending with the death of a Diva. Cilea based his story on a famous Comedie ...

What would a family do if a total stranger pitched up on their doorstep to announce that the eldest son's supposedly virginal fiancee was really a whore? This is the starting point of Francesco ...

Both Frederick Delius's 1907 opera A Village Romeo and Juliet and Francesco Cilèa's L'Arlesiana, from 1897, have one thing in common. Each is very rarely performed, yet each contains one number that ...

Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. The opera ...

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