NEW YORK (AP) --- The fireworks start early this New Year's Eve at the Metropolitan Opera, where two jealous divas locked in a deadly rivalry will be setting off sparks in a new production of Francesco Cilea's "Adriana Lecouvreur". Russian soprano Anna Netrebko stars as the title character, loosely based on a real-life 18th-century French actress. Anita Rachvelishvili, a mezzo-soprano from the Republic of Georgia, plays the evil Principessa di Bouillon. The women compete for the dashing Maurizio and, in keeping with legend, the Principessa dispatches Adriana by sending her a bouquet of poisoned violets. The David McVicar production, which also stars tenor Piotr Beczala as Mauri...
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