This blog is mainly about contemporary opera (operas composed after 1970), but also about classical music. Ce blog est consacré principalement à l'actualité de l'opéra contemporain depuis 1970, mais aussi à la musique / musicologie en général, de manière plus anecdotique.
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Wednesday, 29 October 2014
My collection of scores of contemporary operas
Here are the scores of contemporary operas I have :
- John Adams : Doctor Atomic, full score, Boosey & Hawkes, 560 pp. ;
- Thomas Adès : The Tempest, vocal score, Faber Music, 247 pp. ;
- John Corigliano : The Ghosts of Versailles, vocal score, Schirmer, 369 pp. ;
- Tom Cunningham : The Okavango Macbeth, vocal score, Goodmusic, 168 pp. ;
- Carlisle Floyd : Susannah, full score, Boosey & Hawkes, 427 pp. ;
- Philip Glass : Akhnaten, full score, Dunvagen, 653 pp. ;
- Philip Glass : Satyagraha, full score, Dunvagen, 401 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : The Bassarids, full score, Schott, 671 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : Elegy for Young Lovers, full score, Schott, 532 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : The English Cat, full score, Schott, 609 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : We Come to the River, full score, Schott, 574 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : Venus und Adonis, full score, Schott, 294 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : Boulevard Solitude, full score, Schott, 260 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : Das verratene Meer, full score, Schott, 492 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : Der junge Lord, full score, Schott, 664 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : Il Re cervo, full score, Schott, 511 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : König Hirsch, vocal score, Schott, 725 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe, vocal score, Chester Music, 385 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe, full score, Chester Music, 362 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : Das Ende einer Welt, full score, Schott, 73 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : Ein Landarzt, full score, Schott, 73 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : Das Wundertheater, full score, Schott, 156 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : Der Prinz von Homburg, vocal score, Schott, 288 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : La Cubana oder Ein Leben für die Kunst, vocal score, Schott, 280 pp. ;
- Hans Werner Henze : Pollicino, full score, Schott, 246 pp. ;
- Lee Hoiby : The Tempest, vocal score, Schirmer, 324 pp. ;
- Babette Koblenz : Hexenskat, full score, Kodasi, 181 pp. ;
- György Ligeti : Le Grand Macabre, full score, Schott, 302 pp. ;
- Peter Maxwell Davies : Kommilitonen !, full score, Chester Music, 230 pp. ;
- Stephen Oliver : Timon of Athens, vocal score, Novello, 361 pp. ;
- Krzysztof Penderecki : Die Teufel von Loudun, full score, Schott, 205 pp. ;
- Matthias Pintscher : Thomas Chatterton, full score, Bärenreiter, 336 pp. ;
- Aribert Reimann : Lear, full score, Schott, 460 pp. ;
- Aribert Reimann : Bernarda Albas Haus, full score, Schott, 292 pp. ;
- Aribert Reimann : Die Gespenstersonate, full score, Schott, 165 pp. ;
- Aribert Reimann : Medea, full score, Schott, 302 pp. ;
- Paolo Renosto : L'Ombra di Banquo, full score, Ricordi, 93 pp. ;
- Kaija Saariaho : L'Amour de loin, full score, Chester Music, 440 pp. ;
- Sergei Slonimsky : King Lear, vocal score, Kompozitor, 186 pp. ;
- Sergei Slonimsky : Hamlet, vocal score, Kompozitor, 399 pp. ;
- Michael Tippett : King Priam, full score, Schott, 282 pp. ;
- Michael Tippett : The Midsummer Marriage, full score, Eulenburg, 727 pp. ;
- Manfred Trojahn : Was ihr wollt, full score, Bärenreiter, 367 pp. ;
- Judith Weir : Blond Eckbert, full score, Chester Music, 152 pp. ;
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann : Die Soldaten, full score, Schott, 466 pp.
You can find details about the scores on my librarything webpage.
Friday, 16 May 2014
2014-2015 season at the Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen
The following operas will feature in the 2014-2015 season at the Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen :
There will be 6 new productions :
- Giacomo Puccini : Manon Lescaut, conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, directed by Stefan Herheim (coproduction with Graz and Dresden where it was premiered in March 2013, erroneously announced as a new production) ;
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Idomeneo, conducted by Tomas Netopil, directed by Francisco Negrin (new production) ;
- György Ligeti : Le Grand macabre, conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk, directed by Mariame Clément (new production) ;
- Richard Strauss : Die schweigsame Frau, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, directed by Guy Joosten (new production) ;
- Antonin Dvorak : Rusalka, conducted by Tomas Netopil, directed by Lotte de Beer (new production) ;
- George Benjamin : Into the little Hill, conducted by Manuel Nawri, directed by Kay Link (new production).
There will be 14 revivals :
- Giuseppe Verdi : Nabucco, directed by Andreas Baesler ;
- Leos Janacek : Jenufa, directed by Robert Carsen (first performed in Essen in May 2014, but previously staged for the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and Mulhouse) ;
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Cosi fan tutte, directed by Johannes Schaaf (first performed in July 2011) ;
- Johann Strauß : Die Fledermaus, directed by Gil Mehmert (first performed in December 2011) ;
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Die Zauberflöte, directed by Ezio Toffolutti (already performed in December 2011) ;
- Jules Massenet : Werther, directed by Carlos Wagner (first performed in November 2013) ;
- Giuseppe Verdi : Luisa Miller, directed by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf ;
- Giacomo Puccini : Turandot, directed by Tilman Knabe ;
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Die Entführung aus dem Serail, directed by Jetske Mijnssen (first performed in June 2012) ;
- Richard Wagner : Die Walküre, directed by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf (already performed in July 2011) ;
- Giuseppe Verdi : La Traviata, directed by Josef Ernst Köpplinger (first performed in May 2012) ;
- Ludwig van Beethoven : Fidelio, directed by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf ;
- Georg Friedrich Haendel : Ariodante, directed by Jim Lucassen (first performed last month) ;
- Giuseppe Verdi : Falstaff, directed by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf ;
4 of the 20 operas (in 6 languages) have been composed in the last 100 years.
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