31/05/2007
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.
Plácido Domingo
as Cyrano di Bergerac
Sondra Radvanovsky
as Roxane
Arturo Chacón-Cruz
as Christian
Rodney Gilfry
as De Guiche
Miguel Solá
as Lignière
Nahuel Di Pierro
as Le Bret
Roberto Accurso
as De Valvert
Corrado Carmelo Caruso
as Ragueneau
Itxaro Mentxaka
as Schwester Martha
Juan José Navarro
as Spanischer Offizier
Javier Franco
as Carbon
Silvia Vázquez
as Lisa
Patrick Fournillier
as Self - Conductor
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