Bomarzo -- an Opera in Two Acts and Fifteen Scenes

Boosey And Hawkes. Very Good. 1967. Original Printed Wrappers. 87 pages; Very Good. 1967. 87 pages; Clean and complete, secure in original printed wrappers, stapled at spine. Libretto for Ginastera's BOMARZO (Opus 34) He set a Spanish libretto by Manuel Mujica Laínez, based on his 1962 novel about the 16th-century Italian eccentric Pier Francesco Orsini. The opera makes use of twelve-tone techniques, quarter tones - primarily in the harp parts - and controlled stochastic textures of non-synchronous repetitions of motifs and cells. Published by Boosey & Hawkes, New York, the work's two acts encompass a prelude and 15 scenes. Pola Suarez Urtubey has published an analysis of the opera with an outline of the dramatic structure. "Near Viterbo, Duke Piero Francesco Orsini, himself physically deformed, built a garden of monstrous statues that inspired Mujica Láines to create his monumental novel Bomarzo, from which he crafted an opera libretto for the greatest Argentine composer. Alberto Ginastera composed a powerful opera with an aesthetic of stark expressionism that is highly expressive, with moments of huge and rich sonic substance. "El Mundo"Bomarzo is a retrospective account before the death of the duke, who believes he has drunk a potion for immortality. In these moments the action visits key episodes that forged his life, marginalised by his deformity but also pursued by his own demons. The duke sits, locked in his labyrinth, twinned with the Minotaur, and sings in a search for answers. There are elements of Edvard Munch and also of Franz Kafka, with those unclassifiable monsters that prowl the stage. Bomarzo is an elixir of sounds and pictures that scream and scratch at a perennial human trait: solitude. " La Nación .; Music and Performing Arts, Most Recent Listing, Most Recent Listing, Most Recent Listing, Most Recent Listing .