Salammbô (Mussorgsky)
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| Title: | Salammbô |
| Original title: | Саламбо |
| Original language: | Russian |
| Music: | Modest Mussorgsky |
| Libretto : | Modest Mussorgsky |
| Literary source: | Salambo by Gustave Flaubert |
| Premiere: | November 10, 1980 |
| Place of premiere: | Milan |
| Playing time: | 1½ hours |
| Place and time of the action: | Carthage about 230 BC Chr. |
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Salammbô is an unfinished opera in four acts by Modest Mussorgsky , who in addition to the composition also wrote the libretto . The plot is based on the novel Salambo by Gustave Flaubert . Mussorgsky made his first attempt to create a great opera with Salammbô from 1863 to 1866 under the influence of the Serow opera Judith , but only partially completed the work. He used parts of the composition in his later opera Boris Godunow . Salammbô was orchestrated in full by Zoltán Peskó for the first time and premiered in concert in 1980.
action
As a result of the defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War , a mercenary revolt breaks out . Carthage is besieged by Libyan mercenaries led by the warrior Mathô, who succeeds in robbing the city of the sacred veil (zaïmph). The veil otherwise covers the statue of the goddess Tanit in her temple. The priestess Salammbô, daughter of the Carthaginian general Hamilkar Barkas , goes to the mercenary camp to get the veil back. There she seduces Mathô, who is caught and executed after spending a night with Salammbô.
Recordings
- Zoltán Peskó with choir & orchestra of RAI Milano: Mussorgsky / Pesko. Salammbo , 1980, CBS Masterworks 79253, LP. (Reviewer John B. Steane emphasized in Gramophone Peskó's performance of reviving the fragment that the performance would be difficult to assess without a given score.)
literature
- Marie Luise Maintz: Orient as entertainment? Modest Mussorgski's opera fragment Salammbô . In: Klaus Ley (ed.): Flaubert's Salammbô in music, painting, literature and film: essays and texts . Narr, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-8233-5185-0 , pp. 153-162. ( Online )
- Rubens Tedeschi: Salammbô . In: Heinz-Klaus Metzger , Rainer Riehn (eds.): Modest Musorgskij - aspects of the opera work ( music concepts 21). edition text + kritik , Munich 1981, pp. 23–40. ISBN 3-88377-093-0
Web links
- Work data for Salammbô based on the MGG with discography at Operone
Individual evidence
- ^ Don Michael Randel: The Harvard biographical dictionary of music , Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-674-37299-9 , p. 623.
- ↑ John B. Steane (JBS): MUSSORGSKY / PESKO. SALAMMBO. Gramophone, December 1881, p. 116 ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )