Richard Flury: A Florentine Tragedy: Opera in One Act
The Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) felt the fascination for A Florentine Tragedy, Oscar Wilde’s drama of love and violence in Renaissance Italy, that also attracted his near-contemporary Alexander Zemlinsky: they set the same libretto. Flury responded to the text with this dark and swirling one-act verismo opera, sizzling with sexual tension, the vocal lines of the three characters unfolding over an orchestral texture remarkable for its plasticity and kaleidoscopic colour. It is preceded here by a dignified but impassioned operatic scena setting Grillparzer’s dramatic treatment of the suicide of the Greek poetess Sappho.
Julia Sophie Wagner (soprano), Tracks 1-3, 5-11
Long Long (tenor), Tracks 2-11
Daniel Ochoa (baritone), Tracks 2-11
Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra
Paul Mann (conductor)
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Sapphos Tod (1928)
- The Death of Sappho
- So langsam, Weib?
- Und doch, mein Fürst
- Prinz, man sagt
- Wie, wenn ich die weisse Bianca forderte?
- Was gibt es Neues, mein Prinz?
- Wie er gleich einem schalen Krämer spricht!
- Nicht doch, mein Prinz
- Was meint der Fleck hier auf dem Tuch?
- Hol eine Fackel, Frau!
- Nimm, Heiland, meinen armen Geist zu dir!
Eine florentinische Tragödie (‘A florentine Tragedy’): Oper in einem Aufzug (1926-28)
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