Francesca da Rimini – Riccardo Zandonai – March 16, 2013 at 8:55 a.m. (Approximate running time: 200 minutes)

Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Production: Piero Faggioni
Set Designer: Ezio Frigerio
Costume Designer: Franca Squarciapino
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler
Choreographer: Donald Mahler
Cast: Eva-Maria Westbroek (Francesca), Marcello Giordani (Paolo), Robert Brubaker (Malatestino), Mark Delavan (Gianciotto)

Zandonai’s early 20^th-century melodrama Francesca da Rimini returns to the Met for its first revival in more than 25 years, in Piero Faggioni’s opulent and realistic production. Marco Armiliato conducts Eva-Maria Westbroek in the title role of a noblewoman who is tricked into marrying the brutal Gianciotto, sung by Mark Delavan, instead of her true love Paolo, sung by Marcello Giordani. Robert Brubaker sings the wicked Malatestino, whose jealousy incites a murder.