This morning, I have received the programme book published by the
Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) for the world première performance of
Die Weiden, an opera composed by Johannes Maria Staud with a libretto by Durs Grünbein, on December 8, 2018.
It is a 140 pages book. It contains :
-
Inhaltsangabe and
Ausführliche Inhaltsangabe ;
- several color photos of rehearsals ;
- technical details : complete cast with tessitura, litterature sources, location and time of the action, complete orchestral setting (with detailed percussion section and musicians on stage), duration, cast for the first performance ;
- detailed biography of the composer Johannes Maria Staud ;
- detailed biography of the librettist Durs Grünbein ;
- list of operas composed by Staud ;
- excerpt of
Die Weiden by Algernon Blackwood ;
- excerpt of
Das Herz der Finsternis by Joseph Conrad ;
- Andreas Lang :
Ein Fluss als Protagonist ;
- Johannes Maria Staud :
Anmerkungen über die Musik der Weiden ;
- excerpt of
Der arme Spielmann by Franz Grillparzer ;
- Oliver Rathkolb :
Die Todesmärche von Engerau ;
- Miklos Radnoti :
Gewaltmarsch 1944 (poem) ;
- Peter Filzmaier :
Die Welt der Demagogen und Populisten ;
- Franz Tumler :
Sätze von der Donau (poem) ;
- Rotraud A. Perner :
'Aber vielleicht war all das nur Wahnsinn' ;
- Ilse Aichinger : excerpt of
Unglaubwürdige Reisen ;
- Konrad Paul Liessmann :
'Dreitausend Jahre denken' ;
- Hans Dieter Schäfer :
Die unsichtbare Tätowierung ;
- Andreas Lang :
Aber Lea verkarpft nicht..., discussion with Johannes Maria Staud and Durs Grünbein ;
- Oliver Lang :
Eine Oper zum Leben erweckt, dialogue with conductor Ingo Metzmacher ;
- Andreas Lang :
Eine Oper als Interpretation der Wirklichkeit, dialogue with director Andrea Moses ;
- Urs Dürbein : epilogue of the libretto.
The book is entirely in German. The Vienna State Opera has also published an English version of this book.
I now have 607 programme books for contemporary operas. You can see all the scanned covers in
this flickr folder.
The three libretti written by Durs Grünbein for Joahnnes Maria Staud (
Berenice, Munich, 2004,
Die Antilope, Lucerne, September 3, 2014 and
Die Weiden) have been published in a single volume by
Suhrkamp.
