© SF/Marco Borrelli
Luigi Nono (1924—1990)
IL CANTO SOSPESO
For soprano, contralto and tenor soloists, mixed choir and orchestra (1955 / 56)

Farewell letters from European resistance fighters sentenced to death
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904—1975)
IL PRIGIONIERO
Opera in a prologue and one act (1944–1948, premiered in 1949)

Libretto by Luigi Dallapiccola after Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s La Torture par l’espérance
and Charles De Costers La Légende d’Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak

Sung in Italian with German and English surtitles
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Created in the 1940s, Dallapiccola’s short opera Il prigioniero is a poignant statement of resistance against fascism, politically as well as aesthetically, where shattered hope becomes the cruellest torture. – Luigi Nono wrote music of equally gripping power for the voices of murdered victims in Il canto sospeso, which is based on passages from farewell letters written by captured European resistance fighters sen­tenced to death. Two of the most important works of the 20th century.

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