Cyrano de Bergerac
Music by Franco Alfano · libretto by Henri Caïn · premiered 1936 · at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1936 opera in four acts with music by Franco Alfano and a French libretto by Henri Caïn, based on Edmond Rostand's 1897 French drama Cyrano de Bergerac.
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About the Composer
Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his operas Risurrezione (1904), Sakùntala (1921), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1936), and for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime.
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Other Operas by Franco Alfano
- Il dottor Antonio (1949)