Poetry Cafe 139 The Rape of Lucretia

Playlist: texts read & music played

1. ‚How is it possible…?‘ (last lines of the Libretto)
2. Opening Male Chorus: ‚Rome is now ruled…‘
3. Shakespeare: ‚The Rape of Lucrece‘ (extract)
4. Act 1, Scene 1: Tarquinius, Junius, Collatinus
5. Male Chorus: ‚Tarquinius does not wait…‘
6. Tarquinius: ‚My horse! My horse!‘
7. Britten’s belief about a chamber opera
8. Britten on Kathleen Ferrier (the first Lucretia)
9. Ronald Duncan (Librettist) on  the opposing forces in Etruscan culture
10. Female Chorus: ‚Their spinning-wheel unwinds…‘
11. Lucretia: ‚How cruel men are/ To teach us love….‘
12. Act II, Scene 1: Male & Female Choruses together
13. Tarquinius assails Lucretia (extracts)
14. Humphrey Carpenter: critical analysis of how Lucretia reports the
rape to Collatinus
15. Epilogue
16. Quote from Review in Tiroler Tageszeitung (June 21)

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