Opera in a prologue and one act: words and music by DALLAPICCOLA
(based on La torture par l'espérance by Count Villiers de l'lsle Adam and La Wgende dUlenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak by Charles de Coster) Of this opera Philip Hope -Wallace wrote: ' In an idiom somewhere between Berg and Menotti. it enacts at length the painful torture by false hope of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who is led to believe the doors are open. only to find himself trapped again '
The mother
Claudia PARADA (soprano)
The prisoner
SCIPIO COLOMBO (baritone)
Gaoler and Grand Inquisitor
MIRTO PICCHI (tenor)
Two priests
DINO FORMICHINI (tenor)
GIORGIO giorgetti (baritone)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
TEATRO comunale, FLORENCE chorus-master ADOLFO fanfani conducted by NINO SANZOGNO
Produced by ALEXANDER FERSEN