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Adriana Lecouvreur (2010)
Directed by David McVicar, François Roussillon
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.
Length 150 minutes
Actors
Angela Gheorghiu | Alessandro Corbelli | Maurizio Muraro | Jonas Kaufmann | Olga Borodina | Janis Kelly | Mark Elder | Bonaventura Bottone | Iain Paton | David Soar | Abramo Ciullo | Barbara Rhodes | Kenneth Bryers | Keiko Hewitt-Teale | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House