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.
as Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina
as Pope Pius IV
as Giovanni Morone
as Bernardo Novagierio
as Cardinal Christoph Madruscht
as Carlo Borromeo
as Ighino
as Graf Luna
as Der Bischof von Bodoja
as Silla
as Theophilus
as Ein junger Doktor
