Francesca da Rimini: Vocal Score

by Riccardo Zandonai (Composer)

(Vocal Score). Italian Only.

Genres: Music, Italian Literature

317 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1901

Reviews

[Two Readers in Love]

"The music of early–20th-century Italian composer Francesco Zandonai has largely been forgotten—with the exception of this expansive 1914 opera based on an episode from Dante’s Inferno. The melodramatic plot concerns an affair between the title character and the handsome brother of a cruel and disfigured warlord, to whom she is betrothed. Their dalliance leads to the predictable violent and tragic end, but not before Zandonai makes his case for increased recognition with a surfeit of sumptuous, luxuriously orchestrated music." - MetOpera.org

[Hafl]

This would've been better if that asshole Dante hadn't spoiled it for me.