Sakùntala
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Sakùntala
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The work Sakùntala represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
- Label
- Sakùntala
- Statement of responsibility
- director, Massimo Gasparon
- Language
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- ita
- eng
- ita
- Summary
- To understand La leggenda di Sakuntala means remembering that it is more of a mysterium than an ordinary opera, which is why, after seeing a performance in Bologna, Fritz Reiner pronounced it the Italian Parsifal . Of course, the religious atmosphere pervading Sakuntala is pagan which is hardly surprising, given its setting and its subject is not redemption but the power of love. Alfano used the poem by Kalidasa (5th century BC), also admired by Goethe and Wagner. Those musicologists who claim it is only of modest quality cannot even begin to appreciate the genius it required to combine conciseness with first-rate words and music in a score for orchestra and choir that is a model of its kind. The most impressive aspect of this masterpiece is the way it employs motifs and themes with the same profundity and refinement found in Wagner's own approach and in its development by Strauss. The melodies which the characters sing are almost always slow, somewhere between the ecstatic and the dreamlike, while the atmosphere varies from the solemnly oriental to the ethereal. This release is the first official recording of the work
- Cataloging source
- CaOWLBI
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Credits note
- Artistic director, Francesco Nicolosi ; stage manager, Carmelo Caruso
- Date time place
- Recorded live November 2016 at the Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania
- Dewey number
- 792.5/42
- Intended audience
- E
- Language note
- In Italian with English subtitles
- PerformerNote
- Silvia Dalla Benetta (Sakùntala) ; Kamelia Kader (Priyàmvada) ; Nelya Kravchenko (Anùsuya) ; Enrique Ferrer (Il re) ; Francesco Palmieri (Kanva) ; Alessandro Vargetto (Harìta) ; with supporting soloists ; Orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Nikša Bareza, conductor
- Runtime
- 113
- Target audience
- general
- Technique
- live action
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