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Francesca da Rimini. Dante encounters Francesca in the second circle of hell, where the lustful are punished. Francesca had an affair with her husband's brother, Paolo Malatesta. The two of them were innocently reading romantic stories and became swept up with romantic passion. As a result, the two are punished together in hell.
Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini (Франческа да Римини), Op. 32 ( TH 46 ; ČW 43), is an orchestral fantasia in E minor, after canto V of the Inferno from Dante 's Divine Comedy. It was written and orchestrated in October and November 1876 in Moscow .
Nov 11, 2023 · Paolo and Francesca were illicit lovers in 13th-century Italy, and they have left us with a story that, like all good love stories, ends in tragedy. Paolo Malatesta was the third son of the lord of Rimini, Malatesta da Verucchio, and accounts of his personality vary. He was deemed by some to be a romantic sort, a man not really interested in ...
Jun 7, 2017 · June 7, 2017 by Timothy Judd. Francesca da Rimini, Tchaikovsky’s turbulent orchestral tone poem, begins at the entrance of Hell. Following a ferocious flash in the low strings and the haunting overtones of the tamtam, a grim, quietly grating brass statement almost seems to intone the ominous words from Dante’s Divine Comedy: “Abandon all ...
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 ...
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra,Tchaikovsky Concert hall,18 June 2015, Moscow
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Francesca da Rimini . at the Met. Francesca premiered at the Met in December 1916 with Frances Alda and Giovanni Martinelli as the lovers and Pasquale Amato as Gianciotto. They all appeared in the company’s ten remaining performances of the work through 1918, after which the opera fell out of the repertory for 66 years.
