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Alfano : La leggenda di SakeuntalaMilan, 1955 (Audio)Director: Arturo Basile
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Comentarios La leggenda di Sakeuntala is a three-act opera by Franco Alfano, who wrote his own libretto, basing his work on a Kalidasa's 5th-century BC drama Synopsis: Act I. The King encounters Sakeuntala while hunting with his men near the remote woodland monastery where she lives. The King woos her, and overcoming her initial fear, promises that he will return, giving her a ring by which to remember him. Act II. Daydreaming about the King, Sakeuntala fails to hear the hermit Durvasas's entreaties to open the monastery's gate to admit him. Angered, he curses Sakeuntala, proclaiming that the King would not remember her. Sakeuntala begs a cloud to carry a message to the King. Harita returns to the monastery, and tells Sakeuntala that she is with child. Act III. The King is restless, and not entertained by the dancing girls who perform for him. Sakeuntala arrives with her entourage, but when she attempts to present her ring of remembrance to the King, she realizes that she has lost it. The curse is fulfilled, and Sakeuntala rushes out of the palace to drown herself in a lake. However, belatedly, a fisherman arrives, having found the ring, and presents it to the King, who suddenly remembers Sakeuntala. Servants enter, bearing Sakeuntala's infant child, and the King cries out in anguish. But Sakeuntala's voice descends from heaven (having been taken up into the heavens by a cloud of fire), and tells the King not to despair, for their child will become the hero of the future age. All the people kneel and worship the infant. |
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Enlaces relacionados Alfano Arturo Basile Anna de Cavalieri Antonio Annaloro Fernanda Cadoni Gianna Galli Plinio Clabassi |
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