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.
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina
Pope Pius IV
Giovanni Morone

Bernardo Novagierio

Cardinal Christoph Madruscht
Carlo Borromeo
Ighino

Graf Luna

Der Bischof von Bodoja
Silla
Theophilus
Ein junger Doktor

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