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Adriana Lecouvreur
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Title: Adriana Lecouvreur

Release Date: 1 Jan 2010

Runtime: 2h 30m

Genre: Music

Director: Decca

Production Companies: Decca

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.

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Cast

  • Maurizio: Jonas Kaufmann
  • Adriana Lecouvreur: Angela Gheorghiu
  • Princesse de Bouillon: Olga Borodina
  • Michonnet: Alessandro Corbelli
  • Poisson: Iain Paton
  • Quinault: David Soar
  • Mlle Jouvenot: Janis Kelly
  • Prince de Bouillon: Maurizio Muraro
  • Abbé de Chazeuil: Bonaventura Bottone
  • Major-Domo: Abramo Ciullo
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