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New Performing Edition of Intolleranza Honors 90th Anniversary of Luigi Nono's Birth

Jan. 09, 2014

New Performing Edition of <em>Intolleranza</em> Honors 90th Anniversary of Luigi Nono's Birth

January 29, 2014 marks the 90th birthday of Luigi Nono. The Venetian composer, who died in 1990, has left behind a compositional legacy characterized by his advanced and sensitive musical language, his love of literature and Classicism, and his political ambitions. In honor of his anniversary, a newly revised edition of Nono’s opera, Intolleranza, has been made available from Schott Music.

Intolleranza, dedicated to Arnold Schoenberg, Nono’s father-in-law, is one of his principle works. The designation ‘Scenic Action’ not only refers to the renunciation of a narrative form of music theatre, but also to the objective of this composition: it is an appeal to take action and to create a self-determined structure in society. The selection of settings for the various scenes, which includes post-apocalyptic Hiroshima and an Algerian concentration camp, fuses with Nono’s dodecaphonic music and its range of textual and lyrical layers in this momentous document of its time.

Over the past few years, interest in Intolleranza has dramatically grown, resulting in a number of new productions. The title of the work has been altered from Intolleranza 1960 to Intolleranza in order to emphasize the timelessness of the composition. Schott has undertaken a comprehensive revision and has issued new performance material, first used in September 2013 in the Theater Augsburg.

To view the new score of Luigi Nono’s Intolleranza, please visit www.schott-music.com. 

Luigi Nono
Intolleranza (1960-1961)
stage action in two parts
Libretto (It) by Luigi Nono from an idea by Angelo Maria Ripellino and texts by Julius Fučík, Henri Alleg, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Eluard, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Bertolt Brecht
for tenor, soprano, alto, baritone, bass, actors, chorus (on tape), and orchestra
3.3.3(2. or. 3. bcl).3-6.4.4.0-12perc-hp.cel-str
75’

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