Pfitzner: Palestrina (2009)
Music
Comedy
Drama
Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was premiered in 1917, director Christian Stückle, conductor Simone Young, and the Bavarian State Opera met those challenges with stunning success.
Cast
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina
Pope Pius IV
Theophilus
Ein junger Doktor
Giovanni Morone
Bernardo Novagierio
Cardinal Christoph Madruscht
Carlo Borromeo
Ighino
Graf Luna
Der Bischof von Bodoja
Silla
Crew
Conductor
Director