Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Antonio Pappano

Chanteur

Soprano

Ángeles Blancas Gulín

La Mère

Baryton

Eric Greene

Le Prisonnier

Ténor

Stefano Secco

Le géôlier

Le Grand Inquisiteur

Egor Zhuravskii

1. prêtre

Chuma Sijeqa

2. prêtre

Direction de choeur

Simon Halsey

Others

London Symphony Chorus

Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra

Barbican Centre

italien

Il prigioniero -  (Le Prisonnier)

Londres

Royaume-Uni

Public

Concert

Valide

Sun 5 Jun 2022 7.00pm - 8.45pm
Barbican Hall, London
Respighi Church Windows
Interval
Dallapiccola Il prigioniero

Sir Antonio Pappano champions one of the unsung masterpieces of 20th-century opera – Luigi Dallapiccola’s shattering Il prigioniero.

‘I was alone … there was darkness in this cell, darkness in my heart.’ Locked in a dungeon, and far beyond all human help or consolation, the Prisoner dreams of freedom. But no prison, it seems, can trap him more surely than his own hopes and fears. Sir Antonio Pappano conducts a rare concert performance of Luigi Dallapiccola’s gripping 1949 opera.

And gripping really is the word: set in the 16th century but drenched in the atmosphere of film noir, Dallapiccola’s opera tells a story that never becomes any less relevant, in music that broods, glitters, and cuts straight to the core of an eternal human tragedy. For Pappano, it’s one of the undervalued masterpieces of 20th-century opera; a piece that demands to be heard, but which is almost completely unknown in the English-speaking world. With the full London Symphony Chorus and a hand-picked cast, perhaps that’s about to change.

English

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