Partenope (Morricone)
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Title: | Partenope |
Original language: | Italian |
Music: | Ennio Morricone |
Libretto : | Guido Barbieri and Sandro Cappelletto |
Premiere: | 1998 |
Place of premiere: | Palermo |
Playing time: | about 50 minutes |
Place and time of the action: | Naples, mythical time |
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Partenope - Musica per la sirena di Napoli (German: "Partenope - Music for the Siren of Naples") is an opera by the Italian composer Ennio Morricone . The libretto is by Guido Barbieri and Sandro Cappelletto. It was written in 1996/97 and premiered in Palermo in 1998.
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The opera is about the siren Parthenope, venerated as the city goddess in Naples . She is responsible for good morals, but commits suicide when she is in danger of falling into love herself. It falls to the point where Naples will be founded.
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The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:
- Woodwinds : two flutes , two clarinets
- Brass : four horns , two trumpets , two trombones , two tubas
- two harps
- Percussion (four players): timpani , Gc., Three Pt., Cp., Two Mr., Vbr., Tamburin , Tamburello, C.rullanti, Putipù, Tt., Lastra, Perc. napoletane
- Strings : violins , cellos , double basses
Individual evidence
- ↑ Partenope. Work information from the Comitato nazionale italiano musica, accessed on April 20, 2018.
- ↑ Biography of Ennio Morricone. In: Prisma , accessed April 20, 2018.
- ↑ Gregor Dolak: The film composer Ennio Morricone is celebrating a comeback - and yet feels completely misunderstood. In: Focus , November 11, 1996, accessed April 20, 2018.
- ↑ Information on works from Schott Music , accessed on April 20, 2018.