Luigi Nono's Al gran sole carico d'amore

Theatre director Katie Mitchell describes her first encounter with the music of Italian composer Luigi Nono and her subsequent staging of Al gran sole carico d'amore, an operatic work which interweaves stories from the 1871 Paris Commune and the Russian Revolution. Conductor Richard Bernas highlights the lyrical and communicative aspects of Nono's music and its place in the world of post-war serialism.