28 May 2008
Il prigioniero/Bluebeard’s Castle, La Scala, Milan
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f6986b80-2c06-11dd-9861-000077b07658.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f6986b80-2c06-11dd-9861-000077b07658.html
(Photo: Marco Brescia, Archivio Fotografico del Teatro alla Scala)
By George Loomis [Financial Times, 27 May 2008]
It was good to pair Luigi Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero with Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle but then it was good to revive Il prigioniero period, even if this one-act opera by the most lyrical of Italian dodecaphonists was staged just last month at the Paris Opera.