Franz Liszt: Sardanapalo - El Khoury, Hernández, Pushniak, Staatskapelle Weimar & Kirill Karabits

World premiere: First recording and first performance of Franz Liszt’s reconstructed Sardanapalo
Franz Liszt never finished his mature opera Sardanapalo. Now 170 years old, the first act refracts the world of mid 19th-century opera through the prism of Liszt’s unmistakable voice. Kirill Karabits directs Liszt’s orchestra in Weimar where the music was composed, in a programme of burning, Byronic romanticism.
The Sardanapalo manuscript comprises the first act. For 170 years the material lay dormant in the Goethe and Schiller archive in Weimar: it was only in 2017 that David Trippett deciphered, edited and orchestrated the manuscript at the University of Cambridge.
FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886): SARDANAPALO
Act I, Scenes 1-4, S. 687 (unfinished opera), edited and orchestrated by David Trippett
Joyce El-Khoury, Mirra
Airam Hernández, Sardanapalo
Oleksandr Pushniak, Beleso
Opera Chorus Nationaltheater Weimar
Staatskapelle Weimar
Kirill Karabits
Scene I
Preludio
‘Vieni! Risplendono festive faci’ (Chor)
‘Oh del tetto paterno’ (Mirra)
‘L’altera Ninive a te s’inchina’ (Chor)
Scene II
‘Più lunga cura’ (Mirra)
‘Giù pel piano’ (Mirra)
‘Sogno vano’ (Mirra)
‘Ahi! Nell’ansio rapimento’ (Mirra)
Scene III
‘Nella tua stanza’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra)
‘Parla! Parla!’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra)
‘Sotto il tuo sguardo’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra)
Scene IV
‘Mentre a tuo danno’ (Beleso)
‘Se sol l’armi’ (Sardanapalo)
‘Oh perché, perché quel core’ (Mirra / Beleso)
‘Che far pensi?’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra / Beleso)
‘Diletta vergine’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra / Beleso)
Allegro deciso
recording: August 17 - 20, 2018
recording location: Congress Centrum Neue Weimarhalle
A Co-Produktion with Deutschlandradio (P 2018 + © 2019 Deutschlandradio)
recording / executive producer: Dipl.-Tonmeister Ludger Böckenhoff
producer: Stefan Lang (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
sound and editing: Dipl.-Tonmeister Justus Beyer
engineers: Dipl.-Tonmeister Clemens Deller & Dipl.-Tonmeister Lukas Kowalski
cover: Eugène Delacroix: Female Nude, Killed from Behind (study to one of the figures in ‘The Death of Sardanapalus’)
art direction and design: AB•Design
P 2018 + © 2019 Ludger Böckenhoff
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This opera is like a fusion between Wagner and bel canto and sometimes even a little bit Puccini like