H Beard Print Collection
Music Sheet
ca. 1948 (made)
ca. 1948 (made)
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Music sheet numbered 2 for the opera Il Prigioneiro by Luigi Dellapiccola 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.
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.
Object details
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| Title | H Beard Print Collection (named collection) |
| Materials and techniques | pencil, red pendil and pen and ink on paper |
| Brief description | Music sheet numbered 2 for the opera Il Prigioneiro by Luigi Dellapiccola ca. 1948. Harry Beard Collection. |
| Physical description | Large music sheet with notes in pencil and pen and ink. 'II' inscribed on right top corner in red pen. |
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| Summary | Music sheet numbered 2 for the opera Il Prigioneiro by Luigi Dellapiccola 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. |
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| Other number | F.123-1 - H Beard collection numbering |
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| Accession number | S.165:3-1989 |
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