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Luciano Berio
Berio: La vera storia (ital.)
Übersetzer: Helmut Wagner Karl Heinz Füssl David Osmond-Smith
Libretto von: Italo Calvino Luciano Berio
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Type: Dirigierpartitur
Languages: Italienisch
Format: 297 x 420 mm
Description
As in many
of Luciano Berio’s musical dramas,
there is no real plot to La vera storia, but rather a series
of events. Wolfgang Schreiber said of the première at the Milan Scala in 1982:
“Berio’s theme is tension, and the violent conflict between individual and
state or society, of people and power, of freedom and authority.” In order to
convey this, Berio and Italo Calvino created a storyline which draws elements
of its plot from Verdi’s Il Trovatore. More
important than these elements of the plot, however, is the manner in which they
are presented, which also draws on existing operatic models, including solo
arias, duets, trios, chorales – archetypal operatic forms. Berio extends this
musical vocabulary with the two “cantastorie”, who describe and comment on the
events of the opera in six folk-like ballads (unforgettable Milva as ballad
singer). As with many of his other music theatre works, in La vera storia Berio also attempts “to enhance our consciousness of
the fact that we ourselves are the only ones who are able to fit a story as it
is told into our own experience of the world.”
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Type: Dirigierpartitur
Languages: Italienisch
Format: 297 x 420 mm