fri 31 jul 2020 04:00 hrs
Composers: Alexander Goehr | André Previn | Andrew Ford | Harrison Birtwistle | Julian Philips | Minoru Miki | Paul Moravec | Philip Glass | Richard Einhorn
History of twentieth-century opera. 2009A.
2009: from this dit opera year we have chosen four very different operas (and composers), a perfect reflection of the opera landscape in the year 2009. More and more works were commissioned, which is not necessarily a good thing. Nevertheless, we will really enjoy ourselves…
In this episode, fragments from:
- André Previn (picture)- Brief Encounter
- Philip Glass- Kepler
More opera and operetta productions from 2009:
- Tom Wiggall- Alban
- Vyacheslav Kryglik- The Carriage
- Harrison Birtwistle- The Corridor
- Serge Noskov- Kuratov
- Svetlana Nesterova- The Lawsuit
- Paul Moravec- The Letter
- Thanapoon Sirichang- The Lunch Box
- Barbara Harbach- O Pioneers!
- Richard Einhorn- The Origin
- Andrew Ford- Rembrandt’s Wife
- Curtis H. Hughes- Say It Ain’t So, Joe
- Stephen Schwartz- Séance on a Wet Afternoon
- Anastasia Bespalova- Shponka and his Aunt
- Hao Weiya- A Village Teacher (山村女教师)
- Bo Holten- Het bezoek van de koninklijke arts
- Lei Lei- Xi Shi
- Julian Philips- The Yellow Sofa
- Thomas Pasatieri- The family room
- Alexander Goehr- Promised End
- Leon Jessel- Treffpunkt Tegernsee
- Minoru Miki- The Happy Pagoda (幸せのパゴダ)
