Il prigioniero
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Il prigioniero (The Prisoner) is a short opera by the composer Luigi Dallapiccola who also wrote the libretto. It was first broadcast by the Italian radio station RAI on 1 December 1949. The work is based on the short story La torture par l'espérance ("Torture by Hope") from the collection Nouveaux contes cruels by the French writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.
The twelve-tone opera's "professional" American premiere took place on September 29, 1960, at the New York City Opera, where the cast included Norman Treigle, Richard Cassilly and Anne McKnight; Leopold Stokowski conducted Christopher West's production.
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- Viking Opera Guide ed. Holden (Viking, 1993)
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