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Beatrice Cenci (opera)

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Beatrice Cenci is an opera by German composer Berthold Goldschmidt based on the Shelley play The Cenci. Composed in 1949 to an English libretto by Martin Esslin, the opera won first prize in the Festival of Britain opera competition in 1951 but was not performed until 1988.[1]

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  1. ^ The New Kobbé's Opera Book - Page 276 1997 "in spite of the Arts Council prize won by the composer at the 1951 Festival of Britain for Beatrice Cenci, it remained unstaged, apart from a couple of widely spaced concert performances of excerpts, until Goldschmidt was in his nineties."