Adriana Lecouvreur

In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the violetperfumed murderess is taken by mezzosoprano Marianne Cornetti one of the most indemand representatives of her vocal category Opposite her in the role of Adriana is a soprano who as a Verdi and verismo specialist also appears regularly at all the major international opera houses Micaela Carosi The cockofthewalk role is sung by the worldclass tenor Marcelo Álvarez His timbre velvety smooth yet robustly virile is ideally suited to a vocal characterisation of the idolised Maurizio Conductor Renato Palumbo is very much at home with Cileas operatic masterpiece since the Italian Romantic and verismo periods are at the core of his extensive repertoire