Description
Mascagni’s draws on church music in this masterful and intense evocation of a small community and one guilt-ridden woman’s position outside of it.
The grand Easter Hymn, scored for pretty much the whole cast of the opera, starts with just a solo organ playing from inside the church nearby. Then we hear an unaccompanied choir singing (in Latin) the beginning of the service – ‘Regina coeli, laetare’ – with the voices of the congregation responding ‘Alleluja!’. The choir sings two more phrases and the congregation responds. All this is out of sight.
COMPOSER
Pietro Mascagni
INSTRUMENTS
Piano Accompaniment, Soprano Voice, Alto Voice, Tenor Voice, Bass Voice, SATB, For SSATTB and piano (for Rehearsal)
FORMAT
Score
GENRES
Romantic Period, Opera, Sacred, Easter, Recital
LEVEL
Intermediate
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