| Bomarzo | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Alberto Ginastera | |
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| Librettist | Manuel Mujica Laínez |
| Language | Spanish |
| Based on | Novel by Manuel Mujica Laínez |
| Premiere | 19 May 1967 |
Bomarzo is an opera in two acts by the Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera, his Opus 34. He set a Spanish libretto by Manuel Mujica Laínez, based on his 1962 novel about the 16th-century Italian eccentric Pier Francesco Orsini.
The opera makes use of twelve-tone techniques, quarter tones – primarily in the harp parts – and controlled stochastic textures of non-synchronous repetitions of motifs and cells. Published by Boosey & Hawkes, New York, the work's two acts encompass a prelude and 15 scenes. Pola Suarez Urtubey has published an analysis of the opera with an outline of the dramatic structure.[1]
- ^ Pola Suarez Urtubey, "Ginastera's 'Bomarzo'". Tempo (New Ser.), 84(14), 14-21 (1968).