A decade or so ago, the British vocal ensemble Mediaeval Baebes made something of a splash by creating contemporary tunes with an ancient appeal, using poetry dating back hundreds of years. While that ...
It’s not often operagoers leave humming the scenery, but that was the case Monday, when the Met hauled out Riccardo Zandonai’s “Francesca da Rimini” from the vault. With neither a top-drawer score nor ...
Eva-Maria Westbroek and Marcello Giordani star in Zandonai’s masterpiece Francesca da Rimini, the classic tale of doomed love,based on an episode from Dante’s Inferno. Francesca da Rimini had its Met ...
Francesca da Rimini, Op. 4, is an opera in four acts, composed by Riccardo Zandonai, with libretto by Tito Ricordi, (1865–1933), after the play Francesca da Rimini by Gabriele d'Annunzio. It was ...
Like Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, the tale of Francesca da Rimini can be traced back to Dante’s Inferno. The illicit love that in 13th Century Italy condemned the unfortunate lovers to eternity in ...
Giacomo Rizzo signs, directs, and stars in another declaration of love for popular theatre, with the show: “Ecco… Francesca da Rimini”, on stage at the New Teatro Troisi in Naples, from March 19 to 29 ...
The historical Paolo and Francesca were adulterous lovers in 13th-century Rimini; they were murdered by Lanciotto, who was Francesca’s husband and Paolo’s elder brother. Following the couple’s ...
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