Pfitzner: Palestrina

Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was premiered in 1917, director Christian Stückle, conductor Simone Young, and the Bavarian State Opera met those challenges with stunning success.

• Christian StücklDirector

• Christopher VentrisGiovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina
• Peter RosePope Pius IV
• Michael VolleGiovanni Morone
• John DaszakBernardo Novagierio
• Roland BrachtCardinal Christoph Madruscht
• Falk StruckmannCarlo Borromeo
• Christiane KargIghino
• Wolfgang KochGraf Luna
• Ulrich ReßDer Bischof von Bodoja
• Claudia MahnkeSilla
• Kevin ConnersTheophilus
• Tara ErraughtEin junger Doktor