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Saradanapalo, S.687

Composer
Liszt Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Saradanapalo, S.687
Foreign language / English title
Saradanapalo, S.687
Subtitle
Opera (Only Act I)
Year of composition
1852
Type
Opera
Instrumentation
T., S., B.Bar. soli - female choir - picc., 2 fl., 2 ob., c.ing., 2 cl., cl.b., 2 fg., cfg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 2 trb., trb.b., tuba - perc. - 2 arpa - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
52 min
Movements, parts
Scene I
Preludio
‘Vieni! Risplendono festive faci’ (Choir)
‘Oh del tetto paterno’ (Mirra)
‘L’altera Ninive a te s’inchina’ (Choir)

Scene II
‘Più lunga cura’ (Mirra)
‘Giù pel piano’ (Mirra)
‘Sogno vano’ (Mirra)
‘Ahi! Nell’ansio rapimento’ (Mirra)

Scene III
‘Nella tua stanza’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra)
‘Parla! Parla!’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra)
‘Sotto il tuo sguardo’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra)

Scene IV
‘Mentre a tuo danno’ (Beleso)
‘Se sol l’armi’ (Sardanapalo)
‘Oh perché, perché quel core’ (Mirra / Beleso)
‘Che far pensi?’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra / Beleso)
‘Diletta vergine’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra / Beleso)
Allegro deciso
Text
BYRON, Lord
Language
Italian
Premiere information
19 August 2018, Congress Centrum Neue Weimarhalle, Weimar, Germany; Airam Hernández (T.), Joyce El-Khoury (S.), Oleksandr Pushniak (B.Bar.), Opera Chorus Nationaltheater Weimar, Staatskapelle Weimar, Kirill Karabits (cond.)

22 October 2023, Liszt Ünnep, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, MÜPA, Budapest; Airam Hernández (T.), Joyce El-Khoury (S.), Oleksandr Pushniak (B.Bar.), Women´s Choir of the Hungarian National Choir (choirmaster: Csaba Somos), Kirill Karabits (cond.) (Hungarian premiere)
Publisher / Source
Editio Musica Budapest Ⓒ 2019, 20017A
Available here!
Recordings
CD AUDITE97764, 2019 - Airam Hernández (T.), Joyce El-Khoury (S.), Oleksandr Pushniak (B.Bar.), Opera Chorus Nationaltheater Weimar, Staatskapelle Weimar, Kirill Karabits (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1850 - 1852

Unfinished opera, based on Lord Byron’s tragedy, Sardanapalus

"Franz Liszt never finished his mature opera Sardanapalo. Now 170 years old, the first act refracts the world of mid 19th-century opera through the prism of Liszt’s unmistakable voice. Kirill Karabits directs Liszt’s orchestra in Weimar where the music was composed, in a programme of burning, Byronic romanticism. The Sardanapalo manuscript comprises the first act. For 170 years the material lay dormant in the Goethe and Schiller archive in Weimar: it was only in 2017 that David Trippett deciphered, edited and orchestrated the manuscript at the University of Cambridge."