Rappaccinis daughter daniel catan composer

Catán's setting of Rappaccini's Daughter is based on the Nathaniel Hawthorne story and retold by Mexican Nobel Prize-winning author Octavio Paz. Set during the Italian Renaissance, Rappaccini's Daughter is a multi-layered story that deals not only with the scientific struggle of good and evil, but also with the blurring gray lines created as both good and evil merge.

Cast List
   BEATRIZ: Soprano
   ISABELA: Mezzo-Soprano
   GIOVANNI: Tenor
   BAGLIONI: Tenor
   RAPPACCINI: Baritone
   Tres Voces: Femeninas

Chamber version available
2perc, hp, 2pf

Composer Note
Rappaccini’s Daughter – An opera for the 21st Century

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Rappaccini is a creative spirit, an idealist, a visionary, a revolutionary. He is the very spirit of creation.

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Without that spirit we are not entirely human. It is what makes us want to stand upright and look up to the sky. Rappaccini represents