Adriana Lecouvreur is an account in music of the circumstances that led to the suspected murder of a star of the Comédie-Française. Verismo prides itself on its realism, but rarely are its operas ...

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. The opera ...

For most of the soprano’s 18-season (thus far) Met career, the soprano—who added the title role of Francesco Cilèa’s Adriana Lecouvreur to her local repertoire on Monday night—has bounced out for her ...

Premiered two years after Puccini’s Tosca, Francesco Cilea’s romantic melodrama Adriana Lecouvreur is similar in one aspect, ending with the death of a Diva. Cilea based his story on a famous Comedie ...

The debut Friday 10 February at 20.30. Maestro Francesco Cilluffo conducts the orchestra and choir The two casts who will perform in turn are also top notch: Ramaz Chikviladze (10-12-15-17-19)/Mattia ...

First performed 100 years ago, Adriana Lecouvreur is the best known opera by Francesco Cilea, a younger contemporary of Puccini. The piece has acquired the status of the operatic equivalent of Sunset ...

Francesco Cilea’s opera isn’t a top-tier work, but the David McVicar production at the Met elevates it to new levels. Heidi Waleson ...

The heroine is modelled on French actor Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692-1730), whose celebrated life and strange death spawned several operas. Only Cilea’s has stood the test of time. The libretto by Arturo ...

Every prima donna wants to sing the title role of this no-holds-barred verismo opera and Covent Garden has the ideal protagonist in Angela Gheorghiu. To mark 25 years of singing at this house, she ...