There may be no other historical figure about whom more operas have been written than Francesca da Rimini. The 13th-century Italian aristocrat has been the subject of more than a dozen eponymous works for the opera stage. And, as WRTI’s Jim Cotter reports, most of them get her story wrong.
In the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of the rarely performed Francesca da Rimini, which airs on WRTI on March 16th and will also be transmitted live in HD at movie theaters in our region, tenor Robert Brubaker (a Lancaster, PA native) sings Malatestino, a third brother also in love with Francesca who helps plot her demise.
Listen to Jim Cotter’s full interview with tenor Robert Brubaker
