fri 11 sep 2020 04:00 hrs
Composers: Anthony Davis | George Benjamin | John Adams | Karlheinz Stockhausen | Nicholas Lens | Philippe Boesmans | Robert Ashley | Stuart MacRae
The history of twentieth (and twenty-first) century opera. 2012A.
The year 2012: beautiful works, extraordinary works and modernism. Modernism, like liberalism, is a house with many rooms, and these are each amply explored. Works of, among others, Jörd Widmann, Anthony Davis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen came out in this opera year.
In this episode, fragments from:
- John Adams- The Gospel According to the Other Mary
- Pascal Duapin- Passion
- Mittwoch aus Licht- KarlHeiz Stockhausen
- George Benjamin ( picture )-Written on Skin
More opera and operetta productions from 2012:
- Jörd Widmann- Babylon
- Yin King- The Canal Balad (运河谣)
- Xu Zhanhai (徐占海) Zheng Bing (郑冰) and Wang Hua (王华)- Diàoyúchéng (钓鱼城)
- David T. Little- Dog Days
- Stephen Crowe- The Francis Bacon Opera
- Stuart MacRae- Ghot Patrol
- Gordon Kerry- Midnight Son
- Matthew Davidson- The Singing Lesson
- Nicholas Lens- Slow Man
- Missy Mazzoli- Song From the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt
- Betty Roe- Swindon
- Robert Ashley- Concrete/The Old Man lives in Concrete
- Anthony Davis- Lear on the second Floor
- Constantine Koukias- The Barbarians
- Philippe Boesmans- Poppea e Nerone
- Daron Hagen- The George Washington Suite
