Al gran sole carico d'amore
| Al gran sole carico d'amore | |
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| Opera by Luigi Nono | |
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| Other title | The composer in 1979 |
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| Language | Italian, French, German, Spanish |
| Based on | Plays by Teatro alla Scala |
Al gran sole carico d'amore (In the Bright Sunshine Heavy with Love) is an
Teatro alla Scala on 4 April 1975, conducted by Claudio Abbado. Lyubimov directed the original production. The UK premiere was at the 32nd Edinburgh Festival in 1978.[1] In addition to vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra, the work incorporates taped sounds. This work is a product of Nono's strong political activism through the mid-1970s.[2]
Roles
- Tania (soprano)
- Thiers (tenor)
- Favre (bass)
- Louise Michel (4 sopranos)
- L'ufficiale, the official (tenor)
- Il soldato, the soldier (tenor)
- Bismarck (bass)
- La madre, the mother (alto)
- Deola (4 sopranos)
- Pavel (baritone)
- Il direttore di una fabbrica russa del 1905, the manager of a Russian factory in 1905 (tenor)
- Il delatore, the police informer (tenor)
- Haydée (soprano)
- Una madre e donne vietnamite, a mother and Vietnamese women (soprano)
- Gramsci (baritone)
- Dimitrov (2 basses)
- Castro (bass)
- Male and female women, prisoners
Synopsis
The story is without conventional linear narrative, and comments in its two parts on the 1871
1905 Russian Revolution
. The principal characters are women from those periods, who perish in an attempt to stop the violence of their times.
Recordings
- Teldec New Line (2-CD set) 8573-81059-2: Claudia Barainsky, Maraile Lichdi, Melinda Liebermann, Stella Kleindienst, Lani Poulson, Roderic Keating, Markus Marquardt, Peter Kajlinger, Urs Winter, Helmut Holzapfel, Mark Munkittrick, Carsten Wittmoser; Chorus and Orchestra of the Staatsoper Stuttgart; Lothar Zagrosek, conductor. Recorded June–July 1999 in the Staatstheater Stuttgart.
References
- ^ McAllister, Rita, "Festivals: Edinburgh" (November 1978). The Musical Times, 119 (1629): pp. 980–983.
- ^ Gorodecki, Michael, "Strands in 20th-Century Italian Music: 1. Luigi Nono: A History of Belief" (January 1992). The Musical Times, 133 (1787): pp. 10–14, 16–17.
Further reading
- Osmond-Smith, David (2001). "Al gran sole carico d'amore". In ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
- E. G. "Al gran sole carico d'amore di Luigi Nono", in Piero Gelli (editor) Dizionario dell'opera, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2008. ISBN 88-6073-184-4(archive from 12 February 2012).
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