Assassinio nella Cattedrale

Pizzetti, one of Italy’s leading lyrical composers of the first half of the 20th century, composed several operas, of which ‘Assassinio nella Cattedrale’ is one of his most famous. Pizzetti’s religiosity manifests itself in his choice of T.S. Eliot’s modern-day miracle play about St. Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who returns from a seven-year-exile only to be confronted by various torments, including Four Temptations; he succumbs to the fourth, the temptation of martyrdom … . Internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Ruggero Raimondi, at home on all of the world’s major stages and unforgotten as Don Giovanni in Joseph Losey’s celebrated 1979 film, brings the firmness and authority of his vocal artistry to this role.

Also available: Making of Pizzetti’s ‘Assassinio Nella Cattedrale’ (15’ - A00501028)