Color: Colour

Credits:

Alfano, Franco (1875-1954)

Description:

One Easter, a young nobleman, Dmitrii, visits his uncle and his wife at their villa and is reunited with his childhood friend, Katusha, the family's spinster who has no relatives. After Dmitrii's departure for war, Katusha is found to be carrying a child and is expelled from the family. She is imprisoned on suspicion of murder, and her life is in decline.......The opera "Resurrection" by composer Franco Alfano, known as the author of the completed version of Puccini's unfinished last work "Turandot", has been adapted for the stage and screen many times around the world. Inspired by "Resurrection" (1899), one of Tolstoy's masterpieces that would be adapted for the stage and screen worldwide, Alfano conceived the idea for this work, which premiered in Turin in 1904 with great success and became his breakthrough work. The original novel was adapted for the Japanese stage, and "Katusha no uta" (Song of Katusha), sung by Sumako Matsui in the play, became a big hit in 1914. The leading couple, Katusha and Dmitrii, are played by Anne Sophie Duprel and Matthew Vickers, two of the most sought-after performers at verismo operas around the world.Francesco Lanzilotta and the Florentine May Festival Orchestra & Chorus, led by Francesco Lanzilotta, vividly revive this masterpiece, full of dramatic and brilliant sounds that sometimes recall the music of Puccini and Richard Strauss, with the music of the Russian Orthodox Prayer for the Resurrection throughout. Naxos Japan