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The Knot Garden
(Der Irrgarten), reduced version
Opera in three acts
Edition: Matériel d'exécution
Série:
The Knot Garden
Détails du produit
Description
A house, too, can be a battlefield, and a garden a wilderness. The house here belongs to Faber and Thea: middle-class, middle-aged, probably more than middle-income and in a mid-matrimonial rut of mutual laissez-faire. Also in the house is their young ward Flora, to whom Faber has been making sexual advances. And there are visitors. Thea’s sister Denise is taking a break from other distant battlefields, where she is engaged in the struggle against oppression. A black writer, Mel, is here as well with his white lover Dov, a musician: the first homosexual couple to be ‘out’ on the operatic stage. These people’s entanglements – with each other but also, and more importantly, within themselves – have to be addressed, as in Tippett’s first opera. But this time the Mozart model is Così fan tutte, and the lessons of myth are clothed in the language of psychiatry, as practised by Mangus, the Don Alfonso who may not be as much in control as he would hope. In the last act he stages a performance of The Tempest, which comes adrift. Perhaps more has been achieved in the middle act, a swirl of short scenes ending in an exchange of songs between Flora and Dov – an exchange, too, of homages to Schubert and the blues, both held in the magic of this lustrous score. Paul Griffiths
Orchestral Cast
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Programmation des personnes
Faber, a civil engineer aged about 35 · robust baritone - Thea, his wife, a gardener · dramatic mezzo - Flora, their ward, an adolescent girl · light high soprano - Denise, Thea's sister, a dedicated Freedom-fighter · dramatic soprano - Mel, a black writer in his late twenties · lyric bass-baritone - Dov, his white friend; a musician · lyric tenor - Mangus, an analyst · high tenor-baritone
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Titre:
The Knot Garden
(Der Irrgarten), reduced version
Opera in three acts
Text by the composer
German translation by Claus H. Henneberg
Langue:
Allemand, Anglais
Edition:
Matériel d'exécution
Maison d'édition:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1966 - 1970
Durée:
80 ′
Première:
23 mai 1984 · Bracknell (UK)
Wilde Theatre
Tom Mc Donnell; Christine Botes; Janis Kelly; Marie Angel; Omar Ebrahim; Nigel Robson; Philip Doghan · Musikalische Leitung: Howard Williams · London Sinfonietta
Inszenierung: David Freeman
Wilde Theatre
Tom Mc Donnell; Christine Botes; Janis Kelly; Marie Angel; Omar Ebrahim; Nigel Robson; Philip Doghan · Musikalische Leitung: Howard Williams · London Sinfonietta
Inszenierung: David Freeman
Travaux commandés :
commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Série:
Détails techniques
Numéro du produit:
LSL 4037-02
représentations
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Chef d'orchestre: Peter Bergamin
Orchestre: Taschenoper Wien
1998 |
Vienna (L'Autriche) , Taschenoper Wien
The Knot Garden
Chef d'orchestre: James Lockhart
1994 |
London (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , London Royal Schools / Royal School of Music
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Chef d'orchestre: Philippe Nahon
1994 |
Marne-la-Vallée (France) , ARCAL (à La Ferme du Buisson) — Première nationale
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Chef d'orchestre: David Hoose
1991 |
Boston, Massachusetts (États-Unis d'Amérique) , Boston University School of Music
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Chef d'orchestre: Gerhard Samuel
1990 |
Cincinnati, Ohio (États-Unis d'Amérique) , University of Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music — Première nationale
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