Music

La morte di Lucrezio (1979)

partitura
Vaniloquio di uno schizofrenico
Musical form: musical theatre - chamber opera
Movement/Structure: 1 act

Instrumentation: flute, clarinet Bb, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, harp, percussions (drums, snare drum, 3 tom tom, side drum, big tamtam, suspended cymbal - big and small, 3 T-block, rolling drum, basque drum, triangle, 2 bongos), violin I and II, viola, cello, double bass, recording tape, rec. Voice, tenor, soprano
Duration: 30'
Year init.: 1979
Literary sources: Ennio Emili, adaptation of Plutarch's Lucrez, Lucrez (De rerum natura, vv. 1145-1157, 1160-) and H. von Kleist (see attachment)
Iconographic sources: 1982 skeches for scenery by Antonio Sofianopulo
Dedication: Giuseppe Botta
Notes: in the middle Raps for 12 performers - flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussione (snare drum, 3 tom tom, mil. Drum, big and small suspended cymbal, big tamtam, 3 T-blocks, rolling drum, triangel, basque drum, 2 bongos), violin I and II, viola, cello
Premiere: RAI Trieste, 17.07. 1981 , Lucrezio - Giuseppe Botta tenor, Venere - Alessandra Loy soprano, Fiammetta Giuliani organ and percussion, Giorgio Blasco flute, Adriano Martinolli contra bass; Piero Padovan, Giampiero Biason, Giorgio Pressburger rec. voices; Giorgio Pressburger stage director
SIAE: 792012246-00

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