Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac

Appealing Non-Masterpiece With One Great Scene

Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac — Plot

While best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, Franco Alfano wrote some dozen operas, including Cyrano de Bergerac (1936) with a libretto by Henri Cain based on Edmond Rostand's drama of the same name. It is a moving tale of romantic misunderstanding, swashbuckling bravado and heartbreaking loyalty, in which the eloquent Cyrano feels unable to express his love for Roxane because of his famously protuberant nose except on behalf of his handsome but inarticulate friend, Christian.

• Release date
• May 31, 2007
• Runtime
• 141 min
• Genres
• Music
• Director
• Michal Znaniecki

Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac — Cast

Plácido Domingo Cyrano di Bergerac Sondra Radvanovsky Roxane

A

Arturo Chacón-Cruz Christian Rodney Gilfry De Guiche

M

Miguel Solá Lignière Nahuel Di Pierro Le Bret

R

Roberto Accurso De Valvert

C

Corrado Carmelo Caruso Ragueneau