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Luciano Berio
Berio: Un re in ascolto (ital.)
Dichter der Textvorlage: Wystan Hugh Auden William Shakespeare F. W. Gotter
Libretto von: Italo Calvino
Übersetzer: Burkhart Kroeber
UE33221
Type: Dirigierpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
Languages: Italienisch
Format: 297 x 420 mm
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: Dirigierpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
Languages: Italienisch
Format: 297 x 420 mm