Adriana Lecouvreur (2010)
Overview
Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea s verismo drama explores celebrity, romance, jealousy, and death. The trio of sublime voices is completed by Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina as Adriana s jealous rival, the Princess de Bouillon. David McVicar s hit production the first performance of the opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for more than a century presents the life of the French actress as a blurring of the distinction between fantasy and reality. The action revolves around a life-size Baroque Theatre, taking us from the bustle and colour of the first act backstage at the playhouse, to the bare final scenes as the drama reaches its fatal climax.
What is Adriana Lecouvreur about?
Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea s verismo drama explores celebrity, romance, jealousy, and death. The trio of sublime voices is completed by Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina as Adriana s jealous rival, the Princess de Bouillon. David McVicar s hit production the first performance of the opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for more than a century presents the life of the French actress as a blurring of the distinction between fantasy and reality. The action revolves around a life-size Baroque Theatre, taking us from the bustle and colour of the first act backstage at the playhouse, to the bare final scenes as the drama reaches its fatal climax. Adriana Lecouvreur is a Music movie, released on 2010-01-01, runtime 150 minutes.
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Directed by
David McVicar, François Roussillon
Cast
- Jonas Kaufmann as Maurizio
- Angela Gheorghiu as Adriana Lecouvreur
- Olga Borodina as Princesse de Bouillon
- Alessandro Corbelli as Michonnet
- Iain Paton as Poisson
- David Soar as Quinault
- Janis Kelly as Mlle Jouvenot
- Maurizio Muraro as Prince de Bouillon
- Bonaventura Bottone as Abbé de Chazeuil
- Abramo Ciullo as Major-Domo
- Barbara Rhodes as Mlle Duclos
- Kenneth Bryers as Pantalone
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