Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur

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Label: OPUS ARTE
Catalog: OALS3011D
Format: DVD

Adriana Lecouvreur: Mirella Freni / Maurizio: Peter Dvorsky / Prince de Bouillon: Ivo Vinco / Princesse de Bouillon: Fiorenza Cossotto / Abbé de Chazeuil: Ernesto Gavazzi / Michonnet: Alessandro Cassis / Quinault: Giuseppe Riva / Poisson: Osvaldo Di Credico / Mlle Jouvenot: Patrizia Dordi / Mlle Dangeville: Sara Mingardo
Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Conductor Giandrea Gavazzeni

Cilea’s four-act opera of jealousy and tangled love, first performed in Milan in 1902, is based on the true-life story of Adriana Lecouvreur, an 18th-Century actress at the Comédie Française, whose rival for the love of Maurizio, Count of Saxony, is the married Principessa di Bouillon.

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