Ulisse (opera)
{{short description|1968 opera by Luigi Dallapiccola}}
{{about|the 1968 Italian opera|the 1703 French opera|Ulysse (opera)}}
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{{Infobox opera
| name = Ulisse
| composer = Luigi Dallapiccola
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| librettist = Dallapiccola
| language = Italian
| based_on = Ulysses
| premiere_date = {{start date|1968|09|29}} (in German)
| premiere_location = Deutsche Oper Berlin
}}
{{lang|it|Ulisse}} {{IPA|it|uˈlisse|}} is an opera in a prologue and two acts composed by Luigi Dallapiccola to his own libretto based on the legend of Ulysses. It premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (in German translation by Karl-Heinrich Kreith as Odysseus) on 29 September 1968 conducted by Lorin Maazel with Erik Saedén in the title role.{{Almanacco|dmy=29-09-1968|match=Ulisse}} Ulisse was Dallapiccola's only full-length last opera and took eight years to compose. As in his previous one-act operas, Volo di notte and Il prigioniero, his declared theme was "the struggle of man against some force much stronger than he".Warrack, John and West, Ewan, "Dallapiccola, Luigi", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 1996.
Roles
- Ulisse – baritone (Erik Saedén)
- Calypso / Penelope – soprano (Annabelle Bernard)Shirley, Wayne, [https://www.loc.gov/collections/moldenhauer-archives/articles-and-essays/guide-to-archives/ulisse/ "Luigi Dallapiccola's Sketch for Ulisse"], The Moldenhauer Archives, Library of Congress
- Nausicaa – soprano (Catherine Gayer)
- Re Alcinoo – bass (Victor von Halem)
- Demodoco – tenor (Helmuth Melchert)
- Circe – mezzo-soprano (Jean Madeira)
- La madre di Anticlea (mother of Anticlea) – soprano (Hildegard Hillebrecht)
- Tiresia – tenor (Helmuth Melchert)
- Pisandro (a suitor) – baritone (José van Dam)
- Antinoo – baritone (Ernst Krukowski)
- Eurimaco – tenor (Karl Ernst Mercker)
- Melanto – mezzo-soprano (Jean Madeira)
- Eumeo – tenor (Loren Driscoll)
- Telemaco – contralto (Barbara Scherler)
- Ancella 1 (handmaid 1) – soprano (Gitta Mikes)
- Ancella 2 (handmaid 2) – contralto (Helga Wisniewaska)
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Gelli|editor1-first=Piero|editor2-last=Poletti|editor2-first=Filippo|url=http://delteatro.it/dizionario_dell_opera/u/ulisse.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724172453/http://delteatro.it/dizionario_dell_opera/u/ulisse.php|archive-date=24 July 2011|chapter=Ulisse|author=v.b.|title=Dizionario dell'Opera|language=it|publisher=Baldini Castoldi Dalai|year=2007|isbn=88-6073-184-4|access-date=16 March 2009|ref=none}}
External links
- [https://flaminioonline.it/Guide/Dallapiccola/Dallapiccola-Ulisse58-testo.html "Libretto"], flaminioonline.it
- [https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/booklets/SRD/booklet-STR10063.pdf "CD booklet"], Stradivarius STR 10063 (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lorin Maazel, 1968), Naxos Music Library
- {{Youtube|7-7WRsqq0Go|Prologue and first act}}, Orchestre philharmonique et chœr de Radio France, Ernest Bour, 6 May 1975; {{Youtube|8pJC6TUzpeU|Second act and epilogue|link=no}}
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