Utl.: Luigi Dallapiccolas Kurzoper „The Prisoner“ am 6. August in
ORF 2 and on ORF ON =
Vienna (OTS) – Between hope and doubt: In the 1940s
Luigi Dallapiccola’s expressive short opera “Il
prigioniero” (“The Prisoner”) is a moving key work of the
resistance against fascism and one of those forgotten oeuvres,
That’s worth remembering. The ORF has the production
Part of a Salzburg guest performance evening broadcast entirely on Ö1
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra is recorded and shown
this on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, at 11:20 p.m. on ORF 2 and on
ORF ON. In the concert performance one of the most important
The Austrian interprets one-act operas from the 20th century
Georg Nigl plays the title role, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner,
John Daszak, Andrew Lepri Meyer and Timo Janzen. It sings
the choir of the Bavarian Radio, at the podium of the ORF RSO Vienna
Maxime Pascal conducts. For the picture direction of the ORF broadcast
Leopold Knötzl is responsible for the Felsenreitschule.
The entire guest performance evening, which included Luigi Dallapiccola’s “Il
prisoner“ also Luigi Nonos Kantate „The suspended song“ – one
Setting to music the farewell letters of those sentenced to death from the
European resistance with Tobias Moretti as speaker – presented
was already on Friday, August 2nd, at 7:30 p.m. on Ö1
hear.
More about the content of “Il prigioniero”
The illusion of freedom and hope in times of totalitarianism
regime does not promise a good end. What in Dallapiccolas
One-act play, which initially appears as a promise, is a very special one
perfidious form of deception. He becomes planned and insidious
Protagonist driven into total powerlessness. He keeps stirring things up
Wardens hope for freedom, but that soon turns out to be the worst
Torture proves at all, because in the end only he waits
Pyre. This feeling of being unsteady becomes apparent in the music
through the first use of the twelve-tone technique in the
Italian opera amplified.
Even if Dallapiccola’s “Il prigioniero” was written in the time of Felipe II
Set during the Spanish Inquisition, the depiction appears
corrupt power politics and human suffering is frighteningly current.
A prisoner, persecuted religiously and politically, remains nameless and
Timeless. You could move him to any place, at any time, because
Turmoil, upheavals and false hopes appear
red thread through human history.
The one-act play was written between 1944 and 1948 and premiered
He was introduced in 1949 by Radiotelevisione Italiana Turin. Scenic
The work first celebrated its premiere in Florence in 1950. The libretto
Luigi Dallapiccola wrote it himself, based on the story “La torture
through hope“ von Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam and the Roman
“La Légende d’Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak” by Charles de Coster.
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