His fame as a composer rests almost solely if not only on this superb work, and it's lead soprano role is here taken by one of it's greatest interpreters. Riccardo Zandonai's 1914 opera Francesca da...
The genesis of the story of Francesca da Rimini began with verses from Dante's Inferno, then expanded a few decades later by Boccaccio and finally in 1901, formed as a theatrical drama by Gabriele...