Trivia / Adriana Lecouvreur

• All-Star Cast: As Adriana, the Princess, Maurizio, and Michonnet...
  • Audio Recordings:
    • 1959, conducted by Mario Rossi: Magda Olivero, Giulietta Simionato, Franco Corelli, and Ettore Bastianini.
    • 1961, conducted by Franco Capuana: Renata Tebaldi, Giulietta Simionato, Mario Del Monaco, and Giulio Fioravanti.
    • 1977, conducted by James Levine: Renata Scotto, Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo, and Sherrill Milnes.
    • 1988, conducted by Richard Bonynge: Joan Sutherland, Cleopatra Ciurca, Carlo Bergonzi, and Leo Nucci.
    • 1989, conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni: Mirella Freni, Fiorenza Cossotto, Peter Dvorsky, and Ivo Vinco.
  • Video Recordings:
    • 2000, conducted by Roberto Rizzi Brignoli at La Scala: Daniela Dessì, Olga Borodina, Sergei Larin, Carlo Guelfi.
    • 2010, conducted by Sir Mark Elder at the Royal Opera House: Angela Gheorghiu, Olga Borodina, Jonas Kaufmann, Alessandro Corbelli.
    • 2019, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda at the Met Opera: Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczala, Ambrogio Maestri.
• One-Hit Wonder: Adriana Lecouvreur is Francesco Cilea’s most famous work, and the only one that is regularly performed today.
• Star-Making Role: The role of Maurizio brought Plácido Domingo to fame when he performed it alongside Renata Tebaldi at the Met Opera in 1968.