Pfitzner: Palestrina

Pfitzner: Palestrina

197 mins | Music | July 14, 2009

Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was premiered in 1917, director Christian Stückle, conductor Simone Young, and the Bavarian State Opera met those challenges with stunning success.

Pfitzner: Palestrina

197 mins | Music | July 14, 2009

Pfitzner: Palestrina
Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was premiered in 1917, director Christian Stückle, conductor Simone Young, and the Bavarian State Opera met those challenges with stunning success.
Producers EuroArts Entertainment, Unitel, Bayerische Staatsoper
Original title Pfitzner: Palestrina
Directors Christian Stückl
Writers

Cast

Christopher Ventris

as Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina

Peter Rose

as Pope Pius IV

Michael Volle

as Giovanni Morone

John Daszak

as Bernardo Novagierio

Roland Bracht

as Cardinal Christoph Madruscht

Falk Struckmann

as Carlo Borromeo

Christiane Karg

as Ighino

Wolfgang Koch

as Graf Luna

Ulrich Reß

as Der Bischof von Bodoja

Claudia Mahnke

as Silla

Kevin Conners

as Theophilus

Tara Erraught

as Ein junger Doktor