Francesco Cilea’s (1866–1950) most successful opera, Adriana Lecouvreur (1902), is a work steeped in melodrama and the theatrical, but there was perhaps a little too much ‘drama’ at the première of Opera Australia’s production on Monday night.
Cilea’s opera must rank highly among those works that commentators frequently disparage, while audiences continue to stream into theatres to e ... (read more)