BÚSQUEDA DE ÓPERA
Beatrice Cenci
(1949/50)Libretto by Martin Esslin after Shelley's verse drama 'The Cenci' (E)
S,M,A,3T,2Bar,2B; small roles; chorus;
3(III=picc).3(III=corA).3(III=bcl).3(III=dbn)-4.3.3.1-timp.perc(2/3):
susp.cym/BD/tgl/xyl/glsp/vib/cyms/tam-t/lg tam-t/t.bells/TD/SD-harp-
strings
Abreviaturas (PDF)
Boosey & Hawkes
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Director: Odaline de la Martinez
Compañía: Pro Musica Chorus of London / London Chamber Symphony
Magdeburg
Max K. Hoffmann, director
Director: Mathias Husmann
Compañía: Theater Magdeburg
Goldschmidt’s second opera was one of four prize-winning works in the British Arts Council’s ‘Festival of Britain’ competition in 1949, but it never received the promised performance and had to wait forty years for its concert premiere in London in 1988 and its staged premiere in Magdeburg in 1994. Consciously written in a modern ‘bel canto’ idiom, Beatrice Cenci is a more opulent and romantic opera than its predecessor and contains some of Goldschmidt’s most passionate and eloquent music.
Dramatic, Tragic
Gal James, Christoph Pohl, Dshamilja Kaiser, Christina Bock / Prager Philharmonischer Chor / Wiener Symphoniker / Johannes Debus, cond. / Johannes Erath, dir. (Bregenzer Festspiele 2018)
C Major / Unitel DVD 751408 / Bluray 751504