Pfitzner: Palestrina

Overview

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.

Cast

Christopher Ventris

Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina

Peter Rose

Pope Pius IV

Michael Volle

Giovanni Morone

John Daszak

Bernardo Novagierio

Roland Bracht

Cardinal Christoph Madruscht

Falk Struckmann

Carlo Borromeo

Christiane Karg

Ighino

Wolfgang Koch

Graf Luna

Ulrich Reß

Der Bischof von Bodoja

Claudia Mahnke

Silla