EFT Report, Mumbai: NCPA and The Metropolitan Opera (New York) present Zandonai's ‘Francesca Da Rimini’ Play at Dance Theatre Godrej: NCPA.
In a continuing bid to get the best international programming to the NCPA, a tie-up with New York’s prestigious Metropolitan Opera, brings high-quality screenings of live opera playing at the MET. It’s the next best thing to being there.
Francesca da Rimini is an opera in four acts, composed by Riccardo Zandonai, with the libretto by Tito Ricordi, (1865–1933), after a play by Gabriele d`Annunzio. It was premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 19 February 1914, and is still staged occasionally. This opera is Zandonai`s best-known work.
Francesca da Rimini was a contemporary of Dante in the late 13th century. As legend has it, she was forced into a political marriage with a brutal, much older man, and in the process fell madly in love with her brother-in-law. Eventually, the husband caught the two in the midst of passion and murdered them both. This story, immortalized by Dante, has been told in more than a dozen operas, including one by Sergei Rachmaninoff, though Zandonai`s version is the only one that`s heard much today. This compelling opera, inspired by an episode from Dante`s Inferno, returns in the Met`s ravishingly beautiful production, last seen in 1986.
Date & Time: April 7, 2013; 4 pm
Venue: Dance Theatre Godrej: NCPA, Nariman Point, NCPA Marg, Mumbai
Tickets: Rs 500
Language: English
Genre: Opera, Screening
Length: 3 hrs 57 mins
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| Zandonai's ‘Francesca Da Rimini’ Play |
Francesca da Rimini is an opera in four acts, composed by Riccardo Zandonai, with the libretto by Tito Ricordi, (1865–1933), after a play by Gabriele d`Annunzio. It was premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 19 February 1914, and is still staged occasionally. This opera is Zandonai`s best-known work.
Francesca da Rimini was a contemporary of Dante in the late 13th century. As legend has it, she was forced into a political marriage with a brutal, much older man, and in the process fell madly in love with her brother-in-law. Eventually, the husband caught the two in the midst of passion and murdered them both. This story, immortalized by Dante, has been told in more than a dozen operas, including one by Sergei Rachmaninoff, though Zandonai`s version is the only one that`s heard much today. This compelling opera, inspired by an episode from Dante`s Inferno, returns in the Met`s ravishingly beautiful production, last seen in 1986.
Date & Time: April 7, 2013; 4 pm
Venue: Dance Theatre Godrej: NCPA, Nariman Point, NCPA Marg, Mumbai
Tickets: Rs 500
Language: English
Genre: Opera, Screening
Length: 3 hrs 57 mins
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