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H Beard Print Collection
Dallapiccola, Luigi, born 1904 - died 1975 - Enlarge image
H Beard Print Collection
- Object:
Music sheet
- Place of origin:
Florence, Italy (made)
New York, USA (published) - Date:
ca. 1948 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Dallapiccola, Luigi, born 1904 - died 1975 (composer)
- Materials and Techniques:
pencil, red pendil and pen and ink on paper
- Museum number:
S.165:4-1989
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Music sheet numbered 3 for the opera Il Prigioneiro by Luigi Dallapiccola ca. 1948. Harry Beard Collection.
Il Prigioniero is an opera in a prologue and one act. It was first broadcast by the Italian radion station RAI on 1st December 1949. The work is based on the short story La torture par l'espérance ("Torture by Hope") from the collection Nouveaux contes cruels by the French writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and from La Légende d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak by Charles de Coster. Dallapiccola composed Il prigioniero in the period of 1944-1948.[1] The work contains seven parts and lasts about 50 minutes.
The opera's first stage performance was at the Teatro Comunale Florence on May 20, 1950. The performers were Magda Laszlo, Mario Binci, Scipio Colombo, with conducter Hermann Scherchen. The first "professional" American premiere took place on September 29, 1960, at the New York City Center, where the cast included Norman Treigle, Richard Cassilly and Anne McKnight; Leopold Stokowski conducted Christopher West's production. According to the publisher, the first dozen years after the première had over 186 performances of Il prigioniero on radio, concert platform, and stage.
