Universal Edition - Luciano Berio – Un re in ascolto | Azione musicale in 2 parti

Luciano Berio
24.10.1925—27.05.2003

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Luciano Berio
Un re in ascolto | Azione musicale in 2 parti

Work Details
Year of composition: 1979-1983
Subtitle: Azione musicale in 2 parti
Composer: Luciano Berio
Librettist: Italo Calvino
Original Language: Italienisch
Translator: Burkhart Kroeber
Parts: Prospero, bass-baritone
Regisseur, tenor
Freitag, actor
Protagonist, soprano
Soprano I and II
Mezzo-soprano
3 Singers: tenor, baritone, bass
some small parts
ballet
Choir: SATB
Soloinstruments/Soloists: soprano; mezzo-soprano; tenor; Bassbariton
Instrumentation: 3 3 4 3 - 3 3 3 1 - perc(2), acc, pno(2 players), t.sax, keyb, str
Instrumentation details: 1st flute; 2nd flute; 3rd flute (+picc); 1st oboe; 2nd oboe; cor anglais; clarinet in Eb; 1st clarinet in Bb; 2nd clarinet in Bb; bass clarinet in Bb (+3rdcl(Bb)); tenor saxophone in Bb; 1st bassoon; 2nd bassoon; contrabassoon; 1st horn in F; 2nd horn in F; 3rd horn in F; 1st trumpet in C; 2nd trumpet in C; 3rd trumpet in C; 1st trombone; 2nd trombone; 3rd trombone; bass tuba; percussion(2); accordion; piano on stage (2 players); keyboard/celesta (1 player); violin I; violin II; viola; violoncello; contrabass
Scenery: 1
Duration (min): 90
Dedication: A Margherita Kalmus
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World Première
Location: Salzburg / Austria
Date: 07.08.1984
Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor: Lorin Maazel
Scenery: Götz Friedrich
Main Soloists: Theo Adam, Heinz Zednik, Helmut Lohner, Patricia Wise, Karan Armstrong, Sylvia Greenberg, Rohangiz Yachmi, Samy Molcho, Thomas Moser, Alfred Muff, Georg Tichy, Wildhaber, Gonda, Ionescu, Sima
Work Introduction

Un re in ascolto is not an opera; it is a phase in Berio’s long farewell to the genre. He describes it in a talk with himself as follows: “The story depicts the experiences of a king who attentively learned of the calamity building up all around him and who powerlessly witnessed the [...]

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