Respighi: La Campana Sommersa

[Machine Translation] Respighi's masterpiece opera is now available in a video package for the first time! The Sinking Bell is Respighi's masterpiece opera, also known as the Roman Trilogy. In this production, based on Gerhard Hauptmann's fable, we hear the essence of Respighi's music, full of mystery, elegance, splendor and richness. --Bell-maker Enrico. Enrico, a bell-maker, is dismayed when the bells he has made for a new church are cast down to the bottom of the valley by the goddess of the pasture. The fairy Lautendelein sees this and casts a cheering spell on him when he returns home, forcing Enrico to abandon his home and summon him to the mountains to make a bell. "I will not return home unless the bell that has sunk to the bottom of the water rings," declares Enrico. His wife Magda, deprived of Enrico, in despair, jumps into the lake and takes her life, and when his children bring him the news, they hear the bell that should have sunk...

レスピーギの傑作オペラ、初映像パッケージ化! 歌劇「沈鐘」は、ローマ「三部作」で知られる、レスピーギによる傑作歌劇。この作品では、ゲルハルト・ハウプトマンの寓話劇に題材を求め、神秘的で優雅、華やかさと豊かさに満ちたレスピーギの音楽の神髄を聞くことができる。 ――鐘作り職人エンリーコ。新しい教会のために作った鐘を牧神によって谷底に落とされて落胆する。それを見た妖精ラウテンデラインは、自宅に戻った彼に元気が出る魔法をかけ、エンリーコに家庭を捨てさせ、山中に呼び寄せ鐘を作らせることに。"水底に沈んだ鐘が鳴らない限り、私は家には戻らない"と宣言するエンリーコ。エンリーコを奪われた彼の妻マグダは絶望の末、湖に飛び込み命を絶ち、その知らせを彼の子供たちが携えてきた時に、沈んだはずの鐘の音が・・・。