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The Rape of Lucretia (Op. 37) is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, written for Kathleen Ferrier, who performed the title role. Ronald Duncan based his English libretto on André Obey 's play Le Viol de Lucrèce [ fr ] .
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton , in which he promised to compose a "graver labour".
Tarquin and Lucretia— life-size image of the rape by Titian; The Story of Lucretia—three scenes, of the rape, Brutus arousing the people, and the suicide; The Suicide of Lucretia—single figure painting; Lucretia and her Husband—distinctive depiction of Lucretia with a knife, and a shadowy male figure just behind. He is either Tarquin or ...
The Rape of Lucretia is much smaller oil on copper replica, measuring 24.5 × 29.9 cm, in a frame 42 × 47.5 × 8 cm. [2] It was once part of the art collection of Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford. [2] The picture was cleaned and repaired by Herbert Lank for the Wallace Collection in 1983. [12]
Albert Herring, Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten.. Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera was a successor to his serious opera The Rape of Lucretia.
The Rienzi ballet was intended to tell the tale of the 'Rape of Lucretia'. This storyline (in which Tarquinius , the last king of Rome, attempts to rape the virtuous Lucretia), parallels both the action of Rienzi (Orsini's attempt on Irene) and its background (patricians versus the people). [ 24 ]
Lucrezia is an opera in one act and three tableaux by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla, after Livy and William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, itself based heavily on Ovid's Fasti. Respighi died before finishing the work, which was therefore completed by his wife, Elsa Respighi, and by one of his pupils, Ennio Porrino.
Lucretia is a painting by the Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. It depicts Lucretia , the wife of Roman consul and general Collatinus , at the moment of her suicide. The decision to take her own life was made after she was blackmailed and raped by Sextus Tarquinius, a fellow soldier of Collatinus.