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Director: Brian Large
Conductor: James Levine
Stars: Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, William Lewis.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255176/
Premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 19 February 1914
The story takes place in Italy: Ravenna and Rimini.
Time: early 1300s
Saw this during my Met on Demand run, liked it.
Today I only really perked up at the end, when things got, um, well, final. And during some earlier PD/RS kissing scenes; they played it hot and steamy.
Weirdest part: when PD & RS meet and fall in love instantly, we get a lengthy scene with music and mooning/mugging, but no singing/talking.
Good to have for breadth of composers. The only other entry for Zandonai on the list of top 1000 operas performed ('09-'18 worldwide, per OperaBase) is Giulietta e Romeo at 963; Rimini is 300th.
Rated 8.8 (18)
MetOpera, cond. Levine; 8
