Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac

Film

Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac

5.020072h 21mAPTAMusic
Spain
Age rating
APTA
Director
Michal Znaniecki
Year
2007

Appealing Non-Masterpiece With One Great Scene

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.

Top cast

Directed by

Michal Znaniecki

Written by

Henri Cain