Un re in ascolto
Azione musicale in 2 parti
YEAR OF COMPOSITION:
1983
TEXT:
Italo Calvino and Luciano Berio
LANGUAGE:
Italian
TEXT SOURCES:
other text sources: W. H. Auden, F. W. Gotter, W. Shakespeare
SCORED FOR:
soloists, actors, choir and orchestra
CAST:
Prospero, bass-baritone
Regista, tenor
Venerdì, actor
Protagonista, soprano
Soprano I and II
Mezzo-soprano
3 Cantanti: tenor, baritone, bass
Ballet
Choir: SATB
RUNNING TIME:
90'
ANNOTATIONS:
Instrumentation: 3 3 4 3 – 3 3 3 1 – 2 perc, acc, pno (2 players), t.sax, keyb, str
See also Duo.
FIRST PERFORMANCE:
07/08/1984, Salzburg. Theo Adam, Heinz Zednik, Helmuth Lohner, Patricia Wise, Karan Armstrong, Sylvia Greenberg, Rohangiz Yachmi, Thomas Moser, Georg Tichy, Alfred Muff, Samy Molcho, Gabriele Sima, Anna Gonda, Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel, Götz Friedrich (stage director)
PUBLISHER:
Universal Edition
EDITION NUMBER:
32993
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- “Die Nichts-Erinnerung ist ein kalter und schwarzer See …”: Gedanken zu bevorstehenden Uraufführung von Luciano Berios “Un re in ascolto” bei den Salzburger Festspielen
- “Un Re in Ascolto” tra Berio e Calvino. Dimensioni musicologhe, letterarie, educative
- “Un re in ascolto”: Berio Calvino e altri
- “Un re in ascolto”. Una vera opera
- Berio, Calvino und Prospero. ″Un re in ascolto″ reflektiert
- Die Einsamkeit des Theaterdirektors: zu Luciano Berios “Un re in ascolto”
- Die Musik in der Weltanschauung und im Symbol- und Bedeutungscode der zeitgenössischen Dichter: Historische Neigungen, unterbrochene Traditionen und nationale Unterschiede im romanischen Sprachraum
- La vera opera del re in ascolto
- Listening as a Letter of Uriah. A note on Berio’s “Un re in ascolto” (1984) on the occasion of the opera’s first performance in London (9 February 1989)
- Luciano Berio’s “Un re in ascolto”
- Prospero è il vento
- Prospero’s isle and the sirens’ rock
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- Un re in ascolto
- Un re in ascolto
- Un roi à l’écoute