Assassinio nella cattedrale
A two-act opera with intermezzo, adapted from T. S. Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral.
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A two-act opera with intermezzo, adapted from T. S. Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral.
After Agamemnon returns from Troy, his wife Clitennestra kills him, ostensibly to avenge their daughter Iphigenia but also to be with her lover Egisto. Seven years later, Orestes returns in disguise and, aided by his sister Elettra, kills Clitennestra and Egisto before going into exile.
The Israelite prophetess Deborah urges war against Canaanite King Sisera and sends Jael to lure him from his fortress. Jael attempts to kill Sisera but falls in love with him, and he pardons her. Mara’s account of her son’s death at Canaanite hands stirs Jael’s conscience. After the Israelites defeat the Canaanites, Sisera seeks refuge in Jael’s tent. Though Jael first refuses to hand him over, she kills him in his sleep as an Israelite mob approaches, sparing him a worse death.
Fedra falls in love with her stepson Ippolito, who rejects her. In anger she accuses him of rape; Teseo invokes Poseidon against his son, who dies in an accident, and when Teseo learns the truth he condemns Fedra.
Gherardo gives his wealth to the poor, then falls in love with Mariola and abandons his religious ambitions. Years later, as a friar, he leads a revolt against corrupt authorities. He agrees to confess heresy to save the arrested Mariola, but she is killed during the unrest and Gherardo is sentenced to death.
Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter Ifigenia to secure fair winds for the Greek fleet bound for Troy. Believing she is to marry Achilles, she arrives with her mother; after the truth is revealed, Ifigenia accepts her fate and approaches the altar, while the epilogue questions the perpetuation of war and prays for all its victims and perpetrators.
Giovanni tries to modernize his community, but a gold discovery turns the farmers toward easy wealth. He hides his own discovery to prevent greed; his wife Cristina blows up the cave to keep others from reaching the gold. Though she survives the explosion briefly, her sacrifice restores the community’s harmony and she dies after asking Giovanni to continue his work.
A two-act opera with an original story featuring Old Testament characters, part of Pizzetti’s trilogy on redemption and the virtue of love.
A two-act opera with intermezzo, adapted from T. S. Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral.
After Agamemnon returns from Troy, his wife Clitennestra kills him, ostensibly to avenge their daughter Iphigenia but also to be with her lover Egisto. Seven years later, Orestes returns in disguise and, aided by his sister Elettra, kills Clitennestra and Egisto before going into exile.
The Israelite prophetess Deborah urges war against Canaanite King Sisera and sends Jael to lure him from his fortress. Jael attempts to kill Sisera but falls in love with him, and he pardons her. Mara’s account of her son’s death at Canaanite hands stirs Jael’s conscience. After the Israelites defeat the Canaanites, Sisera seeks refuge in Jael’s tent. Though Jael first refuses to hand him over, she kills him in his sleep as an Israelite mob approaches, sparing him a worse death.
Fedra falls in love with her stepson Ippolito, who rejects her. In anger she accuses him of rape; Teseo invokes Poseidon against his son, who dies in an accident, and when Teseo learns the truth he condemns Fedra.
Gherardo gives his wealth to the poor, then falls in love with Mariola and abandons his religious ambitions. Years later, as a friar, he leads a revolt against corrupt authorities. He agrees to confess heresy to save the arrested Mariola, but she is killed during the unrest and Gherardo is sentenced to death.
Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter Ifigenia to secure fair winds for the Greek fleet bound for Troy. Believing she is to marry Achilles, she arrives with her mother; after the truth is revealed, Ifigenia accepts her fate and approaches the altar, while the epilogue questions the perpetuation of war and prays for all its victims and perpetrators.
Giovanni tries to modernize his community, but a gold discovery turns the farmers toward easy wealth. He hides his own discovery to prevent greed; his wife Cristina blows up the cave to keep others from reaching the gold. Though she survives the explosion briefly, her sacrifice restores the community’s harmony and she dies after asking Giovanni to continue his work.
A two-act opera with an original story featuring Old Testament characters, part of Pizzetti’s trilogy on redemption and the virtue of love.