Liszt Lives – David Trippett Talks About Reconstructing Liszt’s Opera Sardanapalo

Liszt Lives – David Trippett Talks About Reconstructing Liszt’s Opera Sardanapalo

Once in a while, the music of the great masters has a renaissance with the discovery and reconstruction of a long forgotten score. Pianist, musicologist and writer Dr David Trippett is rebuilding the first act of Franz Liszt’s incomplete opera Sardanapalo. Liszt abandoned this score in 1851, which the Cambridge academic has painstakingly restored in…