Description
Title: Der Schlimm Heilige Vitalis
Artist: Bühlmann, Stephanie
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060113446329
Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta
Release Date: 2022-10-28
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: 2 PACK
Der schlimm-heilige Vitalis (which can be translated roughly as ”Lustful Brother Vitalis”) was the last of the four operas by the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896-1967). It was premiered in 1963, the year after it”s completion and then remained unheard until this recording. The plot, based on a novella by Flury”s fellow Swiss, Gottfried Keller, sets jolly village life against religious intolerance and sexual politics in an unsettling blend of the sentimental and the cynical – although love, of course, triumphs in the end. Flury”s late-Romantic music redeems the libretto with a steady flow of memorable melodies, engaging solo and choral numbers, and colorful orchestration – and with a sense of fun never far from the surface.
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