Auber: Fra Diavolo

19821h 48mHD

Fra Diavolo, ou L'hôtellerie de Terracine (Fra Diavolo, or The Inn of Terracina) is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer Daniel Auber, from a libretto by Auber's regular collaborator Eugène Scribe. It is loosely based on the life of the Itrani guerrilla leader Michele Pezza, active in southern Italy in the period 1800-1806, who went under the name of Fra Diavolo ("Brother Devil").

Cast: Ion Buzea, Emily Rawlins, Arwed Sandner, Peter van der Bilt, Jeanne Piland, Douglas F. Ahlstedt, Alfred Kühne, Udo Holdorf