Credits:

Prokofiev, S.

Description:

Based on Oscar Wilde's play of the same title, Zemlinsky himself wrote the libretto for this opera, "The Florentine Tragedy. Although the opera makes full use of a massive and brilliant orchestra, only three singers appear in the performance. The story is a verismo-like tale of a three-way struggle between Simone, a Florentine merchant, his wife Bianca, and Bianca's lover Guido Baldi. However, this story is different from other verismo-style operas in that it ends with the wife falling in love with the husband who has taken her lover, saying, "I never knew you were so wonderful. De Billy plays the condensed content like Richard Strauss's "Salome" with fluidity and tension. Naxos Japan