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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.
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 ...
Apr 12, 2012 · Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini: Symphonic Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32, was composed in less than three weeks during his visit ...
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Nov 24, 2018 · Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupTchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 (Live) · New York Philharmonic · Leonard BernsteinTchaikovsky: Symphonie...
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In 1876 he listened with interest to proposals for an opera on the story of the adulterous lovers Francesca and Paolo as recounted in the “Inferno” section of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Nothing came of the opera, but Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest persuaded him to depict the tragedy in a symphonic poem. (Modest himself later wrote an opera ...
Home » Scopri Rimini e la Romagna » Francesca da Rimini. Figlia di Guido da Polenta, notabile signore di Ravenna, alla sola età di 15 anni, fu data in moglie a Gianciotto Malatesta signore di Rimini. Matrimonio frutto di un interesse, celebrato più che per amore ma per la celebrazione stessa di un’alleanza tra due casate di Romagna.
Francesca da Rimini is one of history's illstarred lovers. Married to Gianciotto Malatesta, she fell in love with his younger brother Paolo Malatesta, captain of the commune in Florence from 1282 to 1283, while the two jointly read a French romance, Lancelot du Lac. When a third brother informed Gianciotto, he killed Francesca and Paolo in a ...
