Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninoff)
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Francesca da Rimini (Russian: Франческа да Римини), Op. 25, is an opera in a prologue, two tableaux and an epilogue by Sergei Rachmaninoff to a Russian libretto by Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is based on the story of Francesca da Rimini in the fifth canto of Dante's epic poem The Inferno (the first part of the Divine Comedy). The fifth canto is the part about the Second Circle of Hell (Lust). Rachmaninoff had composed the love duet for Francesca and Paolo in 1900, but did not resume work on the opera until 1904. The first performance was on 24 January (O.S. 11 January) 1906 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, with the composer himself conducting, in a double-bill performance with another Rachmaninoff opera written contemporaneously, The Miserly Knight.[1]
Francesca da Rimini | |
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Opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff | |
Native title | Russian: Франческа да Римини |
Librettist | Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Language | Russian |
Based on | story of Francesca da Rimini in Dante's Inferno |
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