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'Partenope,' Ennio Morricone’s Long-Neglected Opera, Emerges to Enchant Naples
Teatro San Carlo revives Ennio Morricone’s 1995 opera Partenope to celebrate Naples’ 2,500th anniversary and highlight its cultural identity through myth and music.
- Teatro San Carlo stages Morricone's only opera Partenope on Friday, about three decades after its 1995 composition and long dormancy.
- The original Positano commission was left without a stage after the festival went bankrupt, and early revival attempts at Teatro Massimo of Palermo stalled for lack of a director.
- Director Vanessa Beecroft and conductor Riccardo Frizza rebuilt the staging without full notes, favoring flutes, harps, horns, and Neapolitan percussion while free tickets for Thursday’s open rehearsal sold out quickly.
- The premiere serves as cultural vindication for Ennio Morricone and coincides with Naples' 2,500th anniversary this year; Neapolitan audience members hailed Thursday's rehearsal as the end of a long wait.
- Placed alongside George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi and a 2024 Paolo Sorrentino film, Morricone's Partenope draws on the mythical siren whose body became Naples, embedding it in local lore.
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The Teatro San Carlo opera house in Naples will host the premiere of the only operatic work by Ennio Morricone, a giant of film music who passed away in 2020. But the opera, titled Partenope, had to wait 30 years to be performed in front of an audience.
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'Partenope,' Ennio Morricone’s long-neglected opera, emerges to enchant Naples
At long last, vindication is at hand for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as gritty Hollywood films.
·United States
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Tomorrow in Naples the world premiere of the opera. Excellent. Speaks Riccardo Frizza
·Italy
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