STANFORD -- Rodrigo Borgia -- SAVONAROLA -- operatic historic character

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Charles Villiers Stanford: man and musician - Pagina 149

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Jeremy Dibble - 2002 - Anteprima - Altre edizioni

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he home of his early musical training afforded an irresistible combination for Stanford, and the material was eminently appropriate.

 

Savonarola's attack on political and ecclesiastical corruption, a

nd the hostility of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alessandro VI) — offered an admirable frame ...

 

In creating their own scenario for Savonarola, A Beckett and Stanford devised a tragic but unfulfilled love story between the young ...