Monna Vanna

Monna Vanna
Operas by
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Aleko (1892)
The Miserly Knight (1904)
Francesca da Rimini (1905)
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Monna Vanna (Russian: Монна Ванна) is an unfinished opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) after a play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Rachmaninoff had completed Act I in short vocal score, with piano accompaniment, and then he went to ask for permission to set the text in a full three-act treatment. However, another composer, Henry Février, had by then received the rights to an operatic setting of the text. Had Rachmaninoff proceeded to a complete operatic setting, such a work could not have been produced in European countries which were signatories to copyright laws that covered the work of Maeterlinck. This opera could only have been produced in countries, such as Russia, which at the time were not signatories to European copyright law. Ultimately, Rachmaninoff abandoned further work on this opera and never wrote a complete setting.[1]

Years later, at the request of Sophie Satin, Rachmaninoff's sister-in-law,[2] Igor Buketoff prepared a performing orchestrated edition of Act I, which he conducted in its world premiere with the Philadelphia Orchestra on 11 August 1984 at Saratoga, New York with Tatiana Troyanos in the title role, Sherrill Milnes as Guido, and John Alexander as Guido's father.[3] He also made the premiere recording of the work, with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra.

Contents

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere cast
Act I performed, 11 August 1984
(Conductor: Igor Buketoff)
Guido, military commander baritone Sherrill Milnes
Guido's father tenor John Alexander
Monna Vanna, wife of Guido soprano Tatiana Troyanos
Torello
Vorso
Chorus (off stage)

Synopsis

Time: 15th-century
Place: Pisa, Italy, during an armed conflict with the city under siege.

Act I is divided into three scenes.

Guido, the military commander in Pisa, learns from his father that the enemy will cease conflict if Monna Vanna, wife of Guido, goes to the enemy's camp, but dressed only in a mantle. Monna Vanna agrees to this demand.

Recordings

References

  1. ^ Geoffrey Norris, "Tantalising torso". The Musical Times, 133(1792), p. 302 (1992).
  2. ^ classicalcdreview.com
  3. ^ Will Crutchfield, "Rachmaninoff's Monna Vanna Fragment". New York Times, 13 August 1984
  4. ^ John Webb, "Record Review" (issues of Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff). Tempo (New Ser.), 181, pp. 40-41 (June 1992).

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