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Luciano Berio
Berio: Un Re In Ascolto - A King is Listening
Dichter der Textvorlage: Wystan Hugh Auden William Shakespeare F. W. Gotter
Libretto von: Italo Calvino
Übersetzer: Burkhart Kroeber
UE17854
Type: Libretto/Textbuch
Languages: Deutsch | Italienisch
Format: 210 x 297 mm
ISBN: 9783702422301
Pages: 60
ISMN: 979-0-008-07168-3
Description
Un re in ascolto is not an opera; it is a phase in Berio’s long farewell to the genre. He describes it in a talk with himself as follows: “The story depicts the experiences of a king who attentively learned of the calamity building up all around him and who powerlessly witnessed the progressive disintegration of his kingdom and his might.”
The king bears the name Prospero; he is distantly related to the hero of Shakespeare’s last tragedy The Tempest. The music seems to be constantly at an emotional peak, the characters singing and crying out their desperation and loneliness into the world. Only at the end does the music become calmer, resigned and bereft of illusions.
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Type: Libretto/Textbuch
Languages: Deutsch | Italienisch
Format: 210 x 297 mm
ISBN: 9783702422301
Pages: 60
ISMN: 979-0-008-07168-3