Montserrat Caballe "Poveri fiori" Adriana Lecouvreur

Gran Teatro del Liceo
Gianfranco Masini, cond.
November 11, 1972

[@RBP1963]

Adriana of dreaming ❤

[@judyjones2475]

So very beautiful, Montserrat was the best 👌 👍 😍 🥰 ☺️

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Paris, 1730. Adriana is in her room. On her birthday, she receives a package which she believes is from Maurizio. Depressed and suicidal because of Maurizio's betrayal of their love, her mood is made worse when she opens the package and finds that it contains the decrepit remains of the violets that she gave Maurizio some time ago as a sign of their love. She sings to them of her sorrow. Little does she know, however, that the package is from Maurizio's other love, the Princesse de Bouillon, who has soaked the flowers in poison. Adriana, hurt, kisses the flowers and throws them into the fire. Maurizio enters, hoping to marry her. They embrace, and he notices that she's shaking. She quickly becomes deranged, and Michonnet and Maurizio - who'd presented the violets to the Princess - realize that Adriana has been poisoned. For a moment, she becomes lucid again ("Ecco la luce"), then dies. Poveri fiori, gemme de'prati, pur ieri nati, oggi morenti, quai giuramenti d'infido cor! L'ultimo bacio, o il bacio primo, ecco v'imprimo, soave e forte bacio di morte, bacio d'amor. Tottu è finito! Col vostro olezzo muoia il disprezzo : con voi d'un giorno senza ritorno cessi l'error! Tutto è finito!