Francesca da Rimini (opera)

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For the Zandonai opera, see Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai).

Francesca da Rimini, (Russian: Франческа да Римини) Op. 25 is an opera in two acts by Sergei Rachmaninov to a Russian libretto by Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

It is based on the story of the heroine Francesca da Rimini in the fifth canto of Dante's epic poem The Inferno (the first part of Divine Comedy). First performance: January 24 [OS January 11], 1906, Bolshoi Theater, Moscow.

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