Beatrice Cenci (opera)
Beatrice Cenci is an opera by German composer Berthold Goldschmidt based on the Shelley play The Cenci. Composed in 1949 to an English libretto by Martin Esslin, the opera won first prize in the Festival of Britain opera competition in 1951 but was not performed until 1988.[1]
Productions[edit]
- 1988 first staged production of Beatrice Cenci Trinity College of Music July 9–11, 1998.
- 1994 production with Roberta Alexander at Opernfest Berlin
Recordings[edit]
- sung in English - Beatrice Cenci. Roberta Alexander (soprano), Simon Estes (bass), Stefan Stoll, Della Jones (mezzo), Endrik Wottrich (tenor), Siegfried Lorenz (baritone), John David De Haan (tenor), Reinhard Beyer (bass), Ian Bostridge (tenor), conductor: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Berlin Radio Chorus, Lothar Zagrosek 2CD Sony
- sung in German, video - Beatrice Cenci. Gal James, Christoph Pohl, Dshamilja Kaiser, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, conducted Johannes Debus. Bregenzer Festspiele, stage director Johannes Erath, July 18, 2018
References[edit]
- ^ The New Kobbé's Opera Book - Page 276 1997 "in spite of the Arts Council prize won by the composer at the 1951 Festival of Britain for Beatrice Cenci, it remained unstaged, apart from a couple of widely spaced concert performances of excerpts, until Goldschmidt was in his nineties."
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