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.

Directed by Christian Stückl

Top cast

Christopher Ventris

Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina

P

Peter Rose

Pope Pius IV

Michael Volle

Giovanni Morone

John Daszak

Bernardo Novagierio

R

Roland Bracht

Cardinal Christoph Madruscht

Falk Struckmann

Carlo Borromeo

Christiane Karg

Ighino

Wolfgang Koch

Graf Luna

U

Ulrich Reß

Der Bischof von Bodoja

C

Claudia Mahnke

Silla

K

Kevin Conners

Theophilus

T

Tara Erraught

Ein junger Doktor

Details