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フランチェスカ・ダ・リミニ』ザンドナーイ

Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini
The music of early–20th-century Italian composer Francesco Zandonai has largely been forgotten—with the exception of this expansive 1914 opera based on an episode from Dante’s Inferno. The melodramatic plot concerns an affair between the title character and the handsome brother of a cruel and disfigured warlord, to whom she is betrothed. Their dalliance leads to the predictable violent and tragic end, but not before Zandonai makes his case for increased recognition with a surfeit of sumptuous, luxuriously orchestrated music.

Eva-Maria Westbroek takes on the title role of Zandonai’s rarely performed epic, alongside Marcello Giordani as Paolo and Mark Delavan as Gianciotto, with Marco Armiliato on the podium.