Romantic opera in one act.

1 act with 3 scenes, for two and a half characters.

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13-12-1962 Elena Todeschi, Juan Bautista Daviu, José Simorra, soloists. Pedro Rovira, costumes. Francesc Todó, set design. Antoni Chic, stage director. Orquestra del Gran Teatre del Liceu. Rafael Ferrer, conductor. Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona.

Libretto by Xavier Montsalvatge based on a Joan Puigdevall's idea, in a Italian version by Giovanni B. Ricci.

Comissioned by Antoni Pàmies as a posthumous tribute to Eduard Toldrà.

Comments

"Montsalvatge uses an intelligible musical language, but with continuous references to modernity; the use of dissonances in a tonal atmosphere is the means by which the composer wants to express his awareness of contemporaneity, a contemporaneity that is certainly complex because it includes both the enjoyment of bel canto as the reality of the music of our time; this necessary and conscious link is not only seen and felt, but is the key to the analysis of the opera's composition."

Francesc Bonastre, 2002.