Francesco Cilea’s “Adriana Lecouvreur” would work equally well as a romance novel, a steamy motion picture, a stage play, or an opera — and, in fact, has done admirably in all of these. The plot is ...

Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692–1730) was considered by many to be the greatest actress of her day, shunning stylized vocal ...

Soprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, and Renata Scotto, taking on—for the first time at the Met—the title role of the real-life French actress who dazzled ...

Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. The opera ...

Newcomers Brian Jagde and Ksenia Dudnikova were superb in this revival of David McVicar’s striking production David McVicar ’s beautiful production of Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur was created ...

Both Frederick Delius's 1907 opera A Village Romeo and Juliet and Francesco Cilèa's L'Arlesiana, from 1897, have one thing in common. Each is very rarely performed, yet each contains one number that ...