Ottorino Respighi was born #OTD in 1879.

Here is his last opera, Lucrezia, posthumously premiered in 1937, and based on the same play by André Obey that Britten took as his source for The Rape of Lucretia.

This is an RAI production from 1958. Anna de Cavalieri and Mario Sereni play Lucrezia and Tarquinio. The conductor is Oliviero de Fabritiis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlhh24nHrv0

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