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And yet the carnal sinner who speaks to Dante at length, Francesca da Rimini, repeatedly and thrillingly characterizes her experience as “love”. [27] By granting Francesca the lexicon of love, a vocabulary dominated by the noun amore and the verb amare, Dante scripts a performance and challenges his readers to interpret it. This is dramatic ...
Francesca da Rimini. This sumptuous production by Piero Faggioni (sets by Ezio Frigerio and costumes by Franca Squarciapino) seduced Met audiences into the enchanting world of Zandonai’s rarely heard opera. His retelling of Dante’s story of the immortal passion of Paolo and Francesca in 13th century Italy is as musically elegant and ...
Francesca da Rimini returned to the Met repertory during the 1985–86 season, still with Scotto, then most recently in 2013, with Eva-Maria Westbroek (pictured above, with Marcello Giordani as Paolo) in the title role. It will probably never be a standard work, perhaps due to its very special challenges, but, when those are met, Zandonai’s ...
Piotr Illich TchaïkovskyFrancesca da Rimini op.32Leningrad Philharmonic OrchestraYevgeny MravinskyLive recording, Leningrad, 27.I.1972
- 23 min
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- incontrario motu
The Wallace Collection, London. Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil (and several variant titles) is a composition painted in at least six very similar versions by Ary Scheffer between 1822 and 1855; all are in oils on canvas. The paintings show a scene from Dante 's Inferno, of Dante and Virgil in the shadows ...
May 17, 2018 · Francesca da Rimini. Francesca da Rimini. The story of the adulterous lovers Paolo and Francesca in canto V of Dante's Inferno has been the basis of several comps.: (1) Symphonic fantasy by Tchaikovsky, Op.32, 1876, based on picture by Doré. (2) Opera in 4 acts by Zandonai to lib. by T. Ricordi after play by d'Annunzio (1902), after Dante's ...
Paolo and Francesca da Rimini; Explore. emotions, concepts and ideas (16,416) emotions and human qualities (5,345) love (516) leisure and pastimes (3,435)
