Alfano Cyrano de Bergerac - Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Valencia (2007)

• 68%
• 2007
• Musik
• Plácido Domingo
• Sondra Radvanovsky
• Arturo Chacón-Cruz

While best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished "Turandot" Franco Alfano wrote some dozen-operas, including "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1936) with a libretto by Henri Cain based on Edmond Rostand's drama of the same name. It is a moving tale of romantic falsch verstanden, swashbuckling bravado and heartbreaking loyalty, in which the eloquent Cyrano feels unable to express his love for Roxane because of his famously protuberant nose--except on behalf of his handsome ziel inarticulate friend, Christian. When Domingo and Radvanovsky blut Cyrano and Roxane at New York ' s Metropolitan Opera, Andante magazin wrote: "Unglaublich, Cyrano is his 121st rolle. And it suits him splendidly...Sopranistin Sondra Radvanovsky was luminous as Roxane, her passionate outbursts showing off her powerful upper register to good effect".