Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac
2007/05/31 • Released • French
Appealing Non-Masterpiece With One Great Scene
Overview
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 misunderstanding, 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 but inarticulate friend, Christian.
Director : Michal Znaniecki
Casts
Plácido Domingo
Cyrano di Bergerac
Sondra Radvanovsky
Roxane
Rodney Gilfry
De Guiche
Nahuel Di Pierro
Le Bret
Itxaro Mentxaka
Schwester Martha
Javier Franco
Carbon
Patrick Fournillier
Self - Conductor
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