Palestrina
Musikalische Legende in three acts
Libretto
Hans Pfitzner
Premiere
12 June 1917, Munich (Prinzregententheater)
Cast
POPE PIUS IV (bass)
GIOVANNI MORONE (baritone)
BERNARDO NOVAGERIO (tenor)
CARDINAL CHRISTOPH MADRUSCHT (bass)
CARLO BOOROMEO (baritone)
CARDINAL OF LOTHRINGEN (bass)
ABDISU (tenor)
ANTON BRUS VON MUGLITZ
(bass)
Count Luna (baritone)
BISHOP OF BUDOJA (tenor)
THEOPHILUS (tenor)
AVOSMEDIANO (bass-baritone)
GIOVANNI PERLUIGI PALESTRINA (tenor)
IGHINO (soprano)
SILLA (mezzo-soprano)
BISHOP ERCOLE SEVEROLUS (bass-baritone)
SINGERS OF THE CHAPPEL OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE (2 tenor, 3 bass)
9 Great DEAD COMPOSERS (3 tenor, 3 baritone, 3 bass)
ANGELIC VOICES (3 soprano)
LUCREZIAS SPIRIT (soprano)
CHORUS
Singers from the Papal Chapel, archbishops, bishops, abbots, heads of religious orders, envoys, ambassadors of princes spiritual and temporal, theologians, scholars from all Christendom, servants, soldiers, crowd
Place
Rome and Trent
Time
End of the year 1563