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Pfitzner: Palestrina
Released
3h 17m
7/14/2009
de - DE
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.
Music
Comedy
Drama
Actors

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

Kevin Conners
Theophilus

Tara Erraught
Ein junger Doktor