FULL THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA Dallas 2023 SMU Meadows School of the Arts
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Rape Of Lucretia
- Composer: Britten Benjamin
- Libretto: Ronald Duncan Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Bob Hope Theater, Owen Arts Center, Dallas, Texas, SMU Meadows School of the Arts
- Recorded: February 4, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: unknown
- Conductor: Parisa Zaeri
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Hank Hammett
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: SMU Meadows School of the Arts
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Set in Rome in 509 B.C. in world of brutality and inequality, the story tells of the occupying Etruscan prince Tarquinius, a narcissistic and licentious tyrant, who is leading Rome in its war against the Greeks. Exasperated with hearing his general Collatinus, a Roman nobleman, boast of the strong bond and completely pure relationship he has with his beautiful, virtuous wife Lucretia, the jealous prince decides to put her to the ultimate test. Despite its savage subject, Benjamin Britten’s shattering chamber opera contains some of his most sheerly beautiful and passionate music as it explores some of the darkest cravings in the human psyche – and what happens when unbridled power and war give them free rein. Sung in English with English supertitles.