Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac
“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.
Production Companies
NAXOS, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia
Languages
French
Cast
Plácido Domingo
Cyrano di Bergerac
Sondra Radvanovsky
Roxane
Arturo Chacón-Cruz
Christian
Rodney Gilfry
De Guiche
Miguel Solá
Lignière
Nahuel Di Pierro
Le Bret
Roberto Accurso
De Valvert
Corrado Carmelo Caruso
Ragueneau
Itxaro Mentxaka
Schwester Martha
Juan José Navarro
Spanischer Offizier
Javier Franco
Carbon
Silvia Vázquez
Lisa
Patrick Fournillier
Self - Conductor
