Prigioniero, Il

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Prigioniero, Il (The Prisoner). Opera in prol. and 1 act by Dallapiccola, comp. 1944–8, to lib. by composer after Villiers de L'Isle Adam's La Torture par l'espérance (1883) and Charles Coster's La Légende d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak. F.p. It. radio 1949. Prod. Florence 1950, NY 1951, London 1959.

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