Saint François d’Assise is the only opera written by French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992). This paper presents a study of the iconographic references that served Messiaen as a model for the musical and scenographic characterization of the opera’s protagonists: Saint Francis, the angel and the leper. Through the analysis of the frescoes, paintings and engravings of Giotto, Cimabue, Fra Angelico, Maurice Denis and Mathias Grünewald, I shed light on the special signification of the characters, manifested through sound and color as a unit.... [Leer más...]