Bernard Uzan

Cyrano Bernard Uzan

The book CYRANO is a monumental and thorough record of the opera from the beginning of the adventure to the last productions recently. The myth of Cyrano and his advantageous nose opens the book!!!!Tributes to the composer David DiChiera and the orchestrator Mark Flint, both great friends of the author of the book, Bernard Uzan, who served also as the librettist and the director of the opera is next to the celebration of CYRANO.... The orchestration, the cast of characters and the full libretto in French and English are part of the adventure. The many productions of the Opera Cyrano are received with great acclaims all over the country and pictures illustrate it. The making of Cyrano and behind the scene during the creation of the opera with original handwritten pages, conversations during the first workshop about the music and notes during rehearsals. And the incredible work of the stage management preparing the next performance with drawings of the sets, props, scene by scene. Excerpts of the music with notes about the orchestration, conversations during rehearsals are part of this book... Pictures of the set and costumes, pictures of each production in different opera houses illustrate the incredible work of the designer John Pascoe. Beautiful pictures of rehearsals and of performances are included with, of course, great pictures of the singers.