Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, Vereinigtes Königreich
Datum/Zeit in London Zeitzone
Programm
| Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) | Symphonie Nr. 5 in c-Moll, Op.67 | |
| Dallapiccola, Luigi (1904-1975) | Il prigioniero (Der Gefangene) |
Darsteller
| Philharmonia Orchestra | ||
| Esa-Pekka Salonen | Musikalische Leitung | |
| Lauri Vasar | Bass | Il prigionero (der Gefangene) |
| Paoletta Marrocu | Sopran | La madre (Die Mutter) |
| Peter Hoare | Tenor | Il carceriere (der Kerkermeister)/ Il grande Inquisitore (der Großinquisitor) |
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia in Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero, an opera of chilling political statement.
An opera of chilling political statement, Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero tells the story of a political prisoner whose jailor allows him to escape, apparently in a gesture of fraternity. In reality it is a cruel joke, as the prisoner reaches the fresh, open air only to run into the arms of the Grand Inquisitor who leads him away to be burned alive. The opera was composed between 1944-48 and reflects Dallapiccola’s disillusionment with Mussolini’s politics: he claimed that his writing would never be as light and carefree as it once was. The composer’s unique blend of lyrical writing in a serialist technique makes this opera searingly moving; and it ends with the prisoner simply whispering the word “Freedom?”.
An opera of chilling political statement, Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero tells the story of a political prisoner whose jailor allows him to escape, apparently in a gesture of fraternity. In reality it is a cruel joke, as the prisoner reaches the fresh, open air only to run into the arms of the Grand Inquisitor who leads him away to be burned alive. The opera was composed between 1944-48 and reflects Dallapiccola’s disillusionment with Mussolini’s politics: he claimed that his writing would never be as light and carefree as it once was. The composer’s unique blend of lyrical writing in a serialist technique makes this opera searingly moving; and it ends with the prisoner simply whispering the word “Freedom?”.
