Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Always ready to embrace novelty, Opera Holland Park has handed out a unique invitation to Zandonai’s Francesca ...

So, what's with the checkered history of "Francesca"? Based on a Gabriele d'Annunzio play inspired by an episode in Dante's "Inferno," it's a lurid tale about doomed love and treachery. That's nothing ...

Francesca da Rimini, Op. 4, is an opera in four acts, composed by Riccardo Zandonai, with libretto by Tito Ricordi, (1865–1933), after the play Francesca da Rimini by Gabriele d'Annunzio. It was ...