At The Opera, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, March 14, 2020
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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. It was first performed on November 6, 1902 at the Teatro Lirico in Milan.
The same play by Scribe and Legouvé which served as a basis for Cilea's librettist was also used by at least three different librettists for operas carrying exactly the same name, Adriana Lecouvreur, and created by three different composers but after Cilea created his own Adriana, none of those by others were performed anymore and they remain largely unknown today.
The opera is based on the life of the French actress Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692–1730). While there are some actual historical figures in the opera, the episode it recounts is largely fictional; its death-by-poisoned-violets plot device is often signalled as verismo opera's least realistic.
Cast:
Adriana Lecouvreur - Renata Tebaldi
Maurizio - Mario del Monaco
La Principessa di Bouillon - Giulietta Simionato
Franco Capuana - conductor
DECCA - 1962
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:13 p.m.
Renata Tebaldi
Francesco Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur
Orchestra e coro dell' Accademia di Santa Cecilla , Roma; Franco Capuana, conductor
11:05 p.m.
Cecilia Bartoli
Rossini
""Cruda sorte! Amor tiranno!""
11:20 p.m.
Cecilia Bartoli
""Mura felici...Elena! O tu, che chiamo""
11:30 p.m.
Renata Tebaldi
Puccini
Gianni Schicchi excerpt
Maggio Musicale Firentino; Lamberto Gardelli, conductor
11:49 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
11:52 p.m.
Czecho-Slovack Radio Symphony Orchestra
Giacomo Puccini
Edgar, opera: Prelude to Act III
Czecho-Slovack Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
11:56 p.m.
Puccini
Le villi, opera: La Tregenda