The Opera Festival of Chicago presents Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea, directed by Shifra Werch, conducted by Maestro Emanuele Andrizzi with a cast of more than 50 performers and a 40-piece ...

Adriana is assaulted by Tsargo, an acquaintance whom she rejected, and becomes pregnant. The child, Yonas, learns the truth about his origin only in his late teens and vows to kill his father. Each of ...

This production, directed by David McVicar and with sets by Charles Edwards, was first staged in 2010 and is returning to Covent Garden for a first revival. It is a spectacular affair, if ...

Francesco Cilea’s “Adriana Lecouvreur” would work equally well as a romance novel, a steamy motion picture, a stage play, or an opera — and, in fact, has done admirably in all of these. The plot is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Six years after the success of her first opera, L’Amour de loin, Kaija Saariaho is back with a modern fable, a ...