Description: Pizzetti's Assassinio nella cattedrale is an opera in two acts and an intermezzo to a libretto by the composer adapted from Alberto Castelli's Italian translation of T. S. Eliot's 1935 play Murder in the Cathedral. The opera was first performed at La Scala, Milan, on 1 March 1958. The present recording by Austrian Radio is from a live performance 9 March 1960 at the Vienna State Opera sung in a German translation by Heinrich Schmidt and Leo Uher. ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI(1880–1968)Assassinio nella cattedrale[sung in German]Mord in der KathedraleThomas Becket – Hans Hotter bassFirst priest – Kurt Equiluz tenorSecond priest – Claude Heater tenorThird priest – Edmond Hurshell baritoneHerald – Anton Dermota tenorFirst tempter – Gerhard Stolze tenorSecond tempter – Paul Schöffler bass-baritoneThird tempter – Walter Berry bass-baritoneFourth tempter – Walter Kreppel bass-baritoneFirst coryphée – Hilde Zadek, sopranoSecond coryphée – Christa Ludwig altoHerbert von Karajan, conductorChor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper Booklet includes German libretto
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Artist: Hans Hotter, Anton Dermota, Hilde Zadek, Christa Ludwig
Format: CD
Release Year: 2002
Record Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Language: German
Release Title: Mord in der Kathedrale
Genre: Classical
