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FRANCESCO CILEA’S ADRIANA LECOUVREUR
LIVE RECORDING FROM THE TEATRO REGIO DI TORINO, 2009
Adriana Lecouvreur MICAELA CAROSI
Maurizio, conte di Sassonia MARCELO ÁLVAREZ
La principessa di Bouillon MARIANNE CORNETTI
Teatro Regio Torino
Conducted by RENATO PALUMBO
Directed by LORENZO MARIANI
Set Design by NICOLA RUBERTELLI
An operatic whodunit with gravitas: Francesco Cilea’s “Adriana Lecouvreur”
It is said even Giuseppe Verdi briefly gave consideration to writing an opera based on this whodunit, when Cilea decided to set the material to music in 1899. The opera’s world premiere in Milan in 1902 was a triumph, due in no small measure to a stellar cast of singers that included Enrico Caruso as Maurizio. For a decade the work was performed regularly throughout Europe and America; thereafter it increasingly disappeared from the repertoire. After revisions to the score and plot and the introduction of significant cuts, Adriana Lecouvreur made a successful comeback and established a presence once again on the international stage. The premiere of the definative version took place in Naples in 1930. Since this time the three main roles of Arturo Colautti’s libretto have regularly been filled by great artists.
In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani, which features reduced décor but magnificent rococo costumes, the “violet-perfumed murderess” is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most in-demand representatives of her vocal category. Opposite her, in the role of Adriana, is a soprano who as a Verdi and verismo specialist also appears regularly at all the major international opera houses, Micaela Carosi. The “cock-of-the-walk” role is sung by the world-class tenor Marcelo Álvarez. His timbre, velvety smooth yet robustly virile, is ideally suited to a vocal characterisation of the idolised Maurizio. Conductor Renato Palumbo is very much at home with Cilea’s operatic masterpiece, since the Italian Romantic and verismo periods are at the core of his extensive repertoire.
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1
Picture Format: 16:9
DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC
Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, DE, FR, ES, JP
Running Time: 151 mins
FSK: 0
Region Code: 0
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