Italian Opera at the Piano – Sonetto del Petrarca

Feeling in the mood for a vacation? Listen to Sonetto 104 and take a trip to Italy!

Sonetto del Petrarca is part of the collection ‘Years of Pilgrimage’, a set of travel impression put to music by Franz Liszt in the most magnificent operatic way. The poem Sonetto 104 by the Renaissance humanist Petrarch focuses on a comparison between love and war as seen through the eyes of a warrior.