Professor Francisco Bueno will analyze the opera Cyrano de Bergerac and its historical context at the Palau de les Arts.

05.02.2007

Francisco Bueno, critic and professor of Opera History at the University of Valencia, will give a lecture next Friday, February 9th at 7 pm in the Palau de les Arts where he will analyze the work Cyrano de Bergerac and its historical and cultural context.
This conference is part of the activities organized by the coliseum around the opera Cyrano de Bergerac, which will be performed on February 11, 15, 18 and 22.

This new production at the Palau de les Arts will feature Plácido Domingo as the main protagonist, accompanied by a cast of top-level singers such as Sondra Radvanovsky (Roxana); Arturo Chacón (Christian); German Villar (Christian); Rodney Gilfry (De Guiche); Corrado C. Caruso (Ragueneau); Nahuel di Pierro (Le Bret) and Silvia Vázquez (La Soeur).

It will be the Spanish premiere of Franco Alfano's opera, in the original French language, and will feature Patrick Fournillier as musical director and Michal Znaniecki, creator of more than one hundred lyrical and theatrical productions, as stage director.

Tenor Plácido Domingo is rehearsing this week with the other soloists, the musical and stage directors, the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, the Choir, and the rest of the cast and crew. The dress rehearsal will take place next Thursday, February 8.

Patrick Fournillier, the production's musical director, is one of the most renowned conductors in France and has conducted operas from the Italian and French repertoire at La Scala, Rome Opera, the Arabian Festival, and has also been the musical director of the Arturo Toscanini Symphony Orchestra.