Beatrice Cenci (opera)

Beatrice Cenci is an opera in three acts by German composer Berthold Goldschmidt based on the Shelley play The Cenci. Composed in 1949 to an English libretto by Martin Esslin. Goldschmidt’s second opera was one of four prize-winning works in the British Arts Council’s ‘Festival of Britain’ competition in 1949, but it never received the promised performance in the 1951 Festival. Its concert premiere was in Queen Elizabeth Hall, London in 1988, and its staged premiere in Magdeburg in 1994.

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