Adriana Lecouvreur
2010-01-01 | 150 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
Recommendations
-
La Gioconda
-
Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
-
Umberto D.
-
Cold Prey II
-
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
-
Re-Kill
-
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
-
Scooby Goes Hollywood
-
Re-Cut
-
The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock
-
The Return of the King
-
The Sweetest Christmas
-
Puppet Master
-
Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
-
Asterix Conquers America
-
Asterix in Britain
-
Super Crazy
-
The Little Shop of Horrors
-
Eating Out: All You Can Eat
Similar Movies
-
Alcina
-
Louis Riel
-
Dialogues des Carmelites
-
Roberto Devereux
-
Guillaume Tell
-
Lucrezia Borgia
-
Puccini Manon Lescaut
-
Orphée et Eurydice
-
Rodelinda
-
Dvorak: Rusalka
-
Verdi: Don Carlos
-
Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964
-
Guglielmo Tell
-
I due Foscari
-
I vespri Siciliani
-
La Donna del Lago
-
La Fanciulla Del West
-
Pergolesi: The Brother in Love (La Scala)
-
Lucia di Lammermoor
-
Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon