Luci mie traditrici (Sciarrino) Stuttgart 2020 Christian Middle, Rachel Wilson, Elmar Gilbertsson, Ida Ranzlev
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Luci mie traditrici or Die tödliche Blume
- Composer: Sciarrino Salvatore
- Libretto: Salvatore Sciarrino Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Staatsoper Stuttgart, Germany
- Recorded: 2020
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Christian Middle, Rachel Wilson, Elmar Gilbertsson, Ida Ranzlev
- Conductor: Cornelius Meister
- Orchestra: Orchestra of the Stuttgart Opera
- Chorus: Chorus of the Stuttgart Opera
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Staatsoper Stuttgart
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, rusubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Luci mie traditrici, 1998 is an opera by contemporary Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino (born 1947). The literary source of the opera was the play by the mid-17th century Italian mannerist poet Giacinto Andrea Cicognini Crime for Honor. The basis of the play was real events from the life of the composer Gesualdo da Venosa, who killed his wife, suspecting her of treason. In the play and opera, these are the Duke, Hergotsinya, the Guest, and the Servant. Seeing in the story of Gesualdo something more than a love triangle, Sciarrino removed from the play most of the action and everything related to historical details, including other characters who would “weight” the action. But the attributes of the theater of the 17th century are left: the time of day during which the action takes place, divided into morning, afternoon, evening. An oath of love, betrayal, jealousy, murder, hunting, the scent of a flower, the scent of blood, the connection between erotic desire and death. Using the new acoustic possibilities of well-known instruments, the composer created an opera based on the theatrical principles of the 17th century, refracted in a postmodernist key. Baroque with a modern avant-garde twist.