A gripping mens’ adventure yarn in the mood of Caniff? Certainly not! A trip to visit Herman Hesse in the Swiss countryside of 1924, that sounds more the ticket. This is later Pratt at his most esoteric, clogged to the arteries with ambiguous literary references masquerading as pointedly elliptical conversation. They are set upon with further threats of gunfire – seemingly from the elusive ‘Monk’ and land upon the island Escondida where the showdown begins.The Secret Rose should probably not be anyone’s first exposure to Hugo Pratt. Slütter who falls immediately in love with hostage Pandora. Rasputin is trading coal with the German Navy, headed by Lt. We meet Corto Maltese marooned on a raft in the middle of the pacific ocean where he is surreptitiously saved by fellow pirate Captain Rasputin and introduced to Pandora and her cousin Cain who are both prisoners on board, held for ransom.
Our story is set around a collection of islands in Papua New Guinea from 1913 – 1915 at the outset of World War I. A total of twenty-nine stories were written and published about Corto Maltese – beginning with The Ballad of the Salty Sea which first appeared in the ‘Sgt. ‘ Swashbuckling pirates, damsels in distress, plots to thwart and mysteries to uncover – No, this is not The Pirates of the Caribbean or The Princess Bride, but instead the cult graphic novel series Corto Maltese created by Hugo Pratt. Instrumentation fl, cl, bs, hn, perc, vi1, vi2, vla, vc, cb Premiere September 20th, 2018 Teatru Manoel in Valletta, Malta Libretto Corina van Eijk, based on the original text by Hugo Pratt,Īuthor of the graphic novel Corto Maltese: una Ballata delĬommission Teatru Manoel, Valletta, Cultural Capital of Europe 2018 LUN 1009 Corto Maltese: the Ballad of the Salty Sea
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