A decade or so ago, the British vocal ensemble Mediaeval Baebes made something of a splash by creating contemporary tunes with an ancient appeal, using poetry dating back hundreds of years. While that ...

It’s not often operagoers leave humming the scenery, but that was the case Monday, when the Met hauled out Riccardo Zandonai’s “Francesca da Rimini” from the vault. With neither a top-drawer score nor ...

Eva-Maria Westbroek and Marcello Giordani star in Zandonai’s masterpiece Francesca da Rimini, the classic tale of doomed love,based on an episode from Dante’s Inferno. Francesca da Rimini had its Met ...

Like Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, the tale of Francesca da Rimini can be traced back to Dante’s Inferno. The illicit love that in 13th Century Italy condemned the unfortunate lovers to eternity in ...

Francesca da Rimini, Op. 4, is an opera in four acts, composed by Riccardo Zandonai, with libretto by Tito Ricordi, (1865–1933), after the play Francesca da Rimini by Gabriele d'Annunzio. It was ...

Clearly we're not talking the Francesca of Tchaikovsky's searing fantasy overture or even Rachmaninov's already over-extended one-act opera, both indebted to all too few lines in Dante's Inferno about ...

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi, conductor (Chandos). For a composer whose music is as popular as Tchaikovsky’s, the four orchestral suites remain relatively unknown rarities both in ...

A TOPLESS woman boxer, simulated sex of various kinds, full frontal nudity - not the usual fare of operatic entertainment. But they all have their proper place in David Pountney's sparkling version of ...