So, what's with the checkered history of "Francesca"? Based on a Gabriele d'Annunzio play inspired by an episode in Dante's "Inferno," it's a lurid tale about doomed love and treachery. That's nothing ...

Clearly we're not talking the Francesca of Tchaikovsky's searing fantasy overture or even Rachmaninov's already over-extended one-act opera, both indebted to all too few lines in Dante's Inferno about ...

Francesca da Rimini, Op. 4, is an opera in four acts, composed by Riccardo Zandonai, with libretto by Tito Ricordi, (1865–1933), after the play Francesca da Rimini by Gabriele d'Annunzio. It was ...