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ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI
Murder in the Cathedral
Asssassinio nella Cattedrale
Archbishop Thomas Becket - Ruggero Raimondi
1st choir soloist - Paoletta Marrocu
2nd choir soloist - Sonia Zaramella
A herald - Luca Casalin
Priests - Saverio Fiore, Filippo Bettoschi, Elia Fabbian
Knights - Salvatore Cordella, Massimiliano Valleggi, Antonio De Gobbi, István Kovács
King of England - Massimo Polverari
Young Archbishop - Fabrizio Bartolucci
Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari / Piergiorgio Morandi
Director for video - Tiziano Mancini
Staging - Daniele D’onofrio
Recording Timing: 85 mins
Recorded: Basilica di S. Nicola di Bari, Italy, 2007
First-ever film recording of Pizzetti’s operatic version of TS Eliot’s play, ‘Murder in the Cathedral’, telling the story of Thomas Becket’s murder by the knights of Henry II. Starring the world-renowned Ruggero Raimondi as the doomed archbishop.
The only large-scale work to have survived by Pizzetti, this piece of sacred drama is a rare curiosity telling the black and gory tale of the murder of Thomas Becket.
Filmed as a staged performance in the spectacular Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, this is the only film version available, making this a must for all opera afficionados wanting something a little different!
Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) was a composer writing in a largely parlando manner in a mix of Renaissance models, Debussy, and such contemporary European composers as Honegger and Hindemith. This is his only well-known work, premiered at La Scala in 1958. There is one CD recording, from Karajan in 1960, with Hans Hotter on DG.
Filmed in Hi-Definition Widescreen
Disc Format: NTSC DVD 9
Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Region Coding: 1-6 (0)
Audio Selection: LPCM Stereo / DTS 5.1 Surround
Colour Mode: Colour
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese
A production of UNITEL and Fondazione Lirico Sinfonica Petruzzelli e Teatri di Bari
Decca DVD NTSC 0743253
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