Format : Reduction
SKU: HL.49016078
UPC: 073999205350. 305 X 229 inches.
English Only. Like 'The Consul' (1950), 'The Saint of Bleecker Street' is a full-length, serious work which features several characteristics of traditional opera. It is in three acts, has a large cast, including a chorus, and a large orchestra.The subject matter is very serious and touches on religious experiences, violence, and murder. Suggestions of incest also appear in the story, and there is no happy ending. The Saint of Bleecker Street is set incontemporary New York City, in the Italian community in and around Bleecker Street. Menotti's libretto concerns the young Annina, who every Good Friday develops stigmata on her hands. Her possessive brother, Michele, fights tokeep the miracle-hungry neighbors away from her and to prevent her from becoming a nun. When Michele's mistress, Desideria, accuses him of being in love with his sister, he stabs her in the back. Very ill, Annina take the nun'sveil in a ceremony at her home and dies in the process. English Only.
SKU: BA.BA08710-90
ISBN 9790006537891. 27 x 19 cm inches. Text Language: French, German. Translation: Pohl, Richard. Text: Ferdinand Lemaire.
Saint-Saens' setting of the biblical story of Samson, a hero equipped with superhuman powers, and his seduction by the Philistine Dalila is considered his magnum opus for the musical stage. It stands alongside Gounod'sFaustand Bizet'sCarmenamong the most popular operas in the French repertoire.Lust, hate, frailty and religious war are the ingredients of the plot. Among other things, the sensual music includes Dalila's famous ariasMon coeur s'ouvre a ta voixandPrintemps qui commence. The Barenreiter vocal score, newly engraved with a clear presentation, contains Richard Pohl's authentic singable translation of the libretto used at the Weimar premiere in 1877.
