The Tell-Tale Heart (Opera)
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| Title: | The Tell-Tale Heart |
The Telltale Heart, illustration by Harry Clarke , 1919 |
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| Shape: | Opera in one act |
| Original language: | English |
| Music: | Bruno Coli |
| Libretto : | Edgar Allan Poe : The Treacherous Heart |
| Premiere: | November 11, 2004 |
| Place of premiere: | Teatro Sociale in Rovigo |
| Playing time: | Around 1 hour |
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The Tell-Tale Heart (Eng .: The treacherous heart ) is an opera in one act by Bruno Coli . It is a literal setting of the short story The Treacherous Heart by Edgar Allan Poe in the English original language and was first performed on November 11, 2004 in Rovigo.
action
Since it is a verbatim setting, the plot is identical to that of Poe's short story. The story is told in the first person. A young man is so confused by the misshapen eyes of his old roommate that he decides to murder him. He spied on him for several nights, eventually killing him, dismembering the body and carefully hiding it under the planks of his floor. Then he carelessly lets the policemen into his apartment, who search everything without creating suspicion. But then he hears his victim's heart beating ever louder. He panics and reveals what he has done.
layout
The music consists of a single act with 26 individual numbers, an overture and an interlude.
The music is eclectic and uses a wide variety of styles, including waltz, foxtrot , pop-rock, harp arpeggios , flute ostinati and vaudeville melodies. There are echoes of Giuseppe Verdi , Kurt Weill or Tin Pan Alley .
Work history
The opera was first performed on November 11, 12 and 14, 2004 at the Teatro Sociale in Rovigo. Baritone Marcello Lippi sang the solo part . Flavio Emilio Scogna was the head of Filarmonia Veneta Gian Francesco Malipiero. Nicholas Brandon was the director, Paola Ratto set the stage and Bruno Cereseto did the costumes.
It was performed in concert in a version for piano and voice at two international conventions over Edgar Allan Poe at the University of Nice (January 2009) and the Belgian Università de Mons.
Another production in a new version for chamber orchestra took place in February 2016 together with Coli's other Poe one-act play The Angel of the Odd at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa. This was also played in June 2016 at the Hungarian Armel Opera Festival in the Thalia Theater Budapest. Marcello Lippi sang the solo role here as well. An ensemble of the Orchestra Arché played under the direction of the composer. Lorenzo Maria Mucci was responsible for the production and the set design. The costumes came from Massimo Poli. The performance was shown as a video stream on Arte Concert .
Web links
- Work information on the website of the Orchestra Arché
- Luca Fialdini: Il Maestro Marcello Lippi: "Io e Edgar Allan Poe" . Interview from February 7, 2016 with the baritone Marcello Lippi (Italian)
- “The Angel of the Odd” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Bruno Coli at the Armel Opera Festival on Arte Concert
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stephen Rachman: “Here! Here! ”: Poe and Bruno Coli's“ The Tell-Tale Heart ”. In: The Edgar Allan Poe Review. Vol. 10, No. 1. Penn State University Press, Spring 2009, pp. 36-43. ( JSTOR 41507857 )
- ↑ a b Biography of Bruno Coli at the Teatro Necessario , accessed on August 9, 2016.
- ↑ Work information from Paperplane , accessed on August 9, 2016.
- ↑ Performance of the Armel Festival on June 30, 2016 ( Memento from August 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 9, 2016.