Luigi Dallapiccola
Ulisse (3LP box)
Format3LP BoxLabelRAI Radiotelevisione ItalianaGenreComposition
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condition (records/box/booklets): NM / NM / NM With original innersleeves. Two booklets (48-pages + 12-pages) included. | Luigi Dallapiccola’s Ulisse (1968) is widely regarded as his final masterpiece and a "summa" of his artistic life. The opera is structured as a musical palindrome—a 13-section symmetrical arch centered around Ulysses’ descent into the underworld. It employs Dallapiccola’s unique 12-note (serial) method, which is often noted for its "jewel-like lustre" and "translucent textures". Critics praise the work’s intellectual depth and the composer's masterly integration of literary influences like Dante, Joyce, and Machado. The music is described as having a "fiercely concentrated lyricism".
Release notes
Made in Italy (On labels) Libretto: Printed in Italy - September 1968 Booklet in Italian | Libretto in Italian Inner sleeves were custom-made for the release, and they include credits and information for each side. Recorded: 15 January, 1972 Note: Soprano Božena Ruk-Fočić's name appears everywhere as "Ruth Focic" but a printed errata note corrects it.
| A | Prologo | ||
| B | Atto 1° - Scena 1a E 2a | ||
| C | Atto 1° - Scena 3e E 4a (Parziale) | ||
| D | Atto 1° - Scena 4a (Conclusione) E 5a | ||
| E | Atto 2° - Scena 1a, 2a E 3a (Parziale) | ||
| F | Atto 2° - Scena 3a (Conclusione) E 4a |
- Alfredo Giacomotti
- Baritone Vocals
- Giuseppe Scalco
- Baritone Vocals
- Renato Cesari
- Baritone Vocals
- Boris Carmeli
- Bass Vocals, Baritone Vocals
- Gianni Lazzari
- Chorus Master
- Luigi Dallapiccola
- Composed By, Text By
- Zoltán Peskó
- Conductor
- Renata Cortiglioni
- Conductor [Chorus]
- Maria Del Fante
- Contralto Vocals
- Katia Kolceva
- Countertenor Vocals
- Michelangelo Zurletti
- Liner Notes
- Regine Sarfaty
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals, Contralto Vocals
- Orchestra Sinfonica E Coro Di Roma Della Radiotelevisione Italiana
- Orchestra
- Božena Ruk Fočić
- Soprano Vocals
- Radmila Bakocevich
- Soprano Vocals
- Slavka Taskova Paoletti
- Soprano Vocals
- Vittorina Magnaghi
- Soprano Vocals
- Aldo Battion
- Tenor Vocals
- Carlo Gaifa
- Tenor Vocals
- Gerald English
- Tenor Vocals
