La bella dormente nel bosco

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. La bella dormente nel bosco is an opera in three acts by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Gian Bistolfi based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty.

The first version of this opera, with the title La bella addormentata nel bosco, premiered in the Teatro Odescalchi in Rome on 13 April 1922. It was a version written for the Italian marionettist Vittorio Podrecca, who was director of a marionette company called Teatro dei Piccoli (Theater for Children). The play was interpreted by marionettes, but it was accompanied by orchestra and singers. The cast of the première included the soprano Cisse Vaugham and the mezzo-soprano Evelina Levi.[1] The performance obtained a complete success, with «many curtain calls for the composer», and was judged as an «art jewel».[2]

A revised version was performed at the Teatro di Torino, Turin, on 9 April 1934, as La bella dormente nel bosco. The cast included Graziella Gazzera Valle (Princess), Magda Piccarolo (Blue Fairy, Nightingale), Angelina Rossetti (Spindle, Duchess, Cat), Maria Benedetti (Queen, Cuckoo, Old lady), Vincenzo Capponi (Prince, Jester) and Egisto Busacchi (King, Woodcutter, Ambassador).[3]

A further posthumous version, revised by Gian Luca Tocchi and by the widow of the composer, Elsa Respighi, was performed in the Teatro Rossini in Turin on 13 June 1967.

Roles

Role Voice type
The blue fairy soprano
The king baritone
The queen contralto
The princess soprano
The prince tenor
The green fairy speaking role
The cuckoo mezzo-soprano
The ambassador baritone
The jester tenor
The little old lady mezzo-soprano
The spindle mezzo-soprano
The frog mezzo-soprano
The cat contralto
A woodcutter baritone
The duchess soprano
The nightingale soprano
Four doctors tenor, bass, bass, bass
Frog, fairies, courtiers, stars, mourners, spiders, woodcutters. Echoing voices. Chorus

Instrumentation

La bella addormentata nel bosco (version 1922) is scored for the following instruments:[4]

flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, triangle, drum, cymbals, bell, handbells, celesta, harpsichord, strings.

La bella dormente nel bosco (version 1934) is instead scored for the following instruments:

flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, drum kit, strings.

Recordings

1994: Adriano, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava), Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, CD Marco Polo Cat. 8.223742[5]

King/Woodcutter: Richard Haan
Queen/Duchess: Denisa Slepkovská
Princess: Janas Valásková
Prince: Guillermo Dominguez
Blue fairy/Nightingale: Adriana Kohutkova

Old lady/Green fairy: Ivana Czaková
Cuckoo/Cat: Dagmar Pecková
Frog/Spindle: Henrietta Lednárová
Jester: Igor Pasek
Ambassador: Ján Durco

References

Notes

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Sources

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