Adrienne Lecouvreur

Opera in two parts
Music : Francesco Cilea

Libretto : Аrturo Colautti after the play by Eugene Scribe & Ernest Legouve

(performed in Italian)
(13 characters, 34 musicians & 12 chorus singers)
Stage version & staging by Yuri Alexandrov
Premiere: 13 June 2001

The tragic fate of the great 18th century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur, portrayed in Scribe and Legouve's signature play and later in Neapolitan composer Francesco Cilea's masterpiece, is brought to life in Yuri Alexandrov's psychological drama. The world of theatre, vicious and sacrificial, scenes from aristocratic high society, the silence of intimate confessions, both expressive and tender… This forms the reality that the drama's characters inhabit. Here passion counterbalances tenderness and death signifies release.