Edipodia operistica

Speranza "[Cosima Wagner] understood MORE THAN [Wagner's] MUSIC. Better than anybody else, she understood Wagner's *wider* aims: he hoped for a rebirth of tragedy as he imagined it had been practiced by the Greeks." "Wagner wanted to link, as it were, the Oresteia to the Nibelungen Saga, the Furies to the Norns, Oedipus to Siegfried, Antigone to Isolde. He wished to use legend as the rostrum from which to speak of crime, wisdom, and love." Ref.: "Edipo e la mitologia comparata" -- Comparetti, Domenico Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Wisconsin _www.archive.org/details/edipoelamitol_ (http://www.archive.org/details/edipoelamitol) ... * "Edipo re". Musica: Ruggero Leoncavallo. Libretto: Giovacchino Forzano. (libretto online, tratto dal "Edipo re" di Sofocle). Atti:uno Prima rappresentazione: 1920, Chicago, Opera Theatre. Prima rappresentazione italiana:15 settembre 1958, Teatro:Siena, Teatro dei Rinnovati Personaggi: Edipo (baritono), Giocasta (soprano), Creonte (tenore), Tiresia (basso), etc. ** Antigona. Opera in three acts in Italian by Traetta. The libretto, by Marco Coltellini, is based on the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. 1772. . ntigona (Antigone) soprano. Ismene soprano. Creonte (Creon) tenor Antonio Prati. Recording: Antigona Maria Bayo, Anna Maria Panzarella, Carlo Vicente Allemano, Laura Polverelli, Gilles Ragon, Les Talens Lyriques, conducted by Christophe Rousset (Decca, 2000)