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 ...

Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. The opera ...

Premiered two years after Puccini’s Tosca, Francesco Cilea’s romantic melodrama Adriana Lecouvreur is similar in one aspect, ending with the death of a Diva. Cilea based his story on a famous Comedie ...

Newcomers Brian Jagde and Ksenia Dudnikova were superb in this revival of David McVicar’s striking production David McVicar ’s beautiful production of Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur was created ...

Soprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, and Renata Scotto, taking on—for the first time at the Met—the title role of the real-life French actress who dazzled ...

For most of the soprano’s 18-season (thus far) Met career, the soprano—who added the title role of Francesco Cilèa’s Adriana Lecouvreur to her local repertoire on Monday night—has bounced out for her ...