fri 7 aug 2020 04:00 hrs
Composers: Alexander Goehr | André Previn | Andrew Ford | Anthony Davis | Harrison Birtwistle | Julian Philips | Michael Nyman | Minoru Miki | Paul Moravec | Philip Glass | Philippe Boesmans | Richard Einhorn
The history of twentieth century opera. 2009B.
2009: we have selected four completely different composers and operas for this year. It’s a perfect reflection of the opera landscape of the year 2009. There is an increasing number of orders of these works, though that is not necessarily a good idea. But we shall absolutely enjoy it…
In this episode fragments from:
- Philippe Boesmans – Yvonne Princess of Burgundy
- Rufus Wainwright (picture) – Prima Donna
Other opera and operetta productions from 2009 are:
- André Previn- Brief Encounter
- Philip Glass- Kepler
- 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- The visit of the royal physician
- 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)
- Anthony Davis- Lilith
- Michael Nyman- Sparkie
- Daron Hagen- Amelia
