Ulisse (opera)
Ulisse is an opera in a prologue and two acts composed by Luigi Dallapiccola to his own libretto based on the legend of Ulysses. It premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 29 September 1968 conducted by Lorin Maazel with Erik Saedén in the title role. Ulisse was Dallapiccola's only full-length last opera and took eight years to compose. As in his previous one-act operas, Volo di notte and Il prigioniero, his declared theme was "the struggle of man against some force much stronger than he".
Roles
- Ulisse – baritone
- Calypso / Penelope – soprano
- Nausicaa – soprano
- Re Alcinoo – bass
- Demodoco – tenor
- Circe – mezzo-soprano
- La madre di Anticlea – soprano
- Tiresia – tenor
- Pisandro – baritone
- Antinoo – baritone
- Eurimaco – tenor
- Melanto – mezzo-soprano
- Eumeo – tenor
- Telemaco – contralto
- Ancella 1 – soprano
- Ancella 2 – contralto