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.
Christopher Ventris
as Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina
Peter Rose
as Pope Pius IV
Michael Volle
as Giovanni Morone
John Daszak
as Bernardo Novagierio
Roland Bracht
as Cardinal Christoph Madruscht
Falk Struckmann
as Carlo Borromeo
Christiane Karg
as Ighino
Wolfgang Koch
as Graf Luna
Ulrich Reß
as Der Bischof von Bodoja
Claudia Mahnke
as Silla
Kevin Conners
as Theophilus
Tara Erraught
as Ein junger Doktor
