Beatrix Cenci

Name: Beatrix Cenci
Director: Alejandro Tantanian
Released: 2016-11-24

2016

Beatrix Cenci is an opera in two acts by Alberto Ginastera to a Spanish libretto by the composer and William Shand, based on the historical family of Beatrice Cenci, the Chroniques italiennes by Stendhal, and The Cenci by Percy Shelley.

Directed by Alejandro Tantanian

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