Ottorino Respighi’s “Lucrezia” and Carl Orff’s “The Moon”, composed almost simultaneously in the late 1930s, stand together like tragedy and comedy. Here the brutal rape of a woman who then takes her own life; there the violent appropriation and sale of something both concrete and mystical like “Mrs. Luna”.
Munich: a double evening with Respighi’s “Lucrezia” and Orff’s “The Moon” – Munich
