FULL AL GRAN SOLE CARICO D’AMORE (Luigi Nono) Milan 1978 Claudio Ababdo, Slavka Taskova Paoletti
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: AL GRAN SOLE CARICO D'AMORE
- Composer: Nono Luigi
- Libretto: Luigi Nono, Yuri Lyubimov based Based mainly on plays by Bertolt Brecht, but also incorporating texts of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Italy
- Recorded: February 11, 1978
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Slavka Taskova Paoletti, Kristina Goranceva, Franca Fabbri, Luisella Ciaffi Ricagno, Elanora Jancovic, Mario Basiola, Federico Davia, Gianni Socci
- Conductor: Claudio Abbado
- Orchestra: Orchestra della Scala
- Chorus: Coro della Scala
- Chorus Master: Romano Gandolfi, Vittorio Rosetta
- Choreographer: Leonid Jakobson
- Stage Director: Yuri Lyubimov
- Stage Designer: David Borovsky
- Costume Designer: David Borovsky
Information about the Recording
- Published by: RAI
- Date Published: 1978
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Al gran sole carico d’amore (In the Bright Sunshine Heavy with Love) is an opera (designated as an ‘azione scenica’) with music by Luigi Nono, based mainly on plays by Bertolt Brecht, but also incorporating texts of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, and Vladimir Lenin. Nono himself and Yuri Lyubimov wrote the libretto. It premiered at the Teatro alla Scala on 4 April 1975, conducted by Claudio Abbado. Lyubimov directed the original production. The UK premiere was at the 32nd Edinburgh Festival in 1978. In addition to vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra, the work incorporates taped sounds. This work is a product of Nono’s strong political activism through the mid-1970s.
Synopsis
The story is without conventional linear narrative, and comments in its two parts on the 1871 Paris Commune and the 1905 Russian Revolution. The principal characters are women from those periods, who perish in an attempt to stop the violence of their times.