Ulisse
Ulisse is an opera in a prologue and two acts composed by Luigi Dallapiccola to his own libretto based on the legend of Ulysses. It premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (in German translation by Karl-Heinrich Kreith as "Odysseus") on 29 September 1968 conducted by Lorin Maazel with Erik Saedén in the title role. "Ulisse" was Dallapiccola's last opera and took eight years to compose. As in his previous operas, "Volo di notte" and "Il prigioniero", his declared theme was "the struggle of man against some force much stronger than he".