New scores in my collection

I have recently acquired several scores of contemporary operas :

- Philippe Boesmans : Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne, Leipzig : Edition Peters, 2009, 422 p.
Full score. 2 volumes.
It contains : character list and orchestration (no detailed percussion).

- Jonathan Dove : Flight, London : Edition Peters, 1998, 188 + 160 + 169 p.
Full score. 3 volumes.
It contains :
- instrumentation with detailed percussion section ;
- characters and cast of the first performance.

- Jonathan Dove : Kwasi & Kwame, London : Edition Peters, 2005, 356 p.
Full score.
It contains : cast with tessituras and instrumentation with detailed percussion section.

- Wolfgang Rihm : Die Hamletmaschine, Vienna : Universal Edition, 1987, 244 p.
Full facsimile score. It contains :
- complete text by Heiner Müller ;
- complete cast and detailed orchestral setting with complete percussion section.

- Wolfgang Rihm : Jakob Lenz, Vienna : Universal Edition, 2016, 151 p.
Full score. It contains :
- cast (characters with tessituras) ;
- orchestral setting, with detailed percussion ;
- duration.

 
- Ming Tsao : Die Geisterinsel, Leipzig : Edition Peters, 2011, 295 p.
Full score. It contains :
- table of contents ;
- complete instrumentation with detailed percussion section ;
- performance notes.

- Erkki-Sven Tüüt : Wallenberg, Leipzig : Edition Peters, 2000, 407 p.
Full score. It contains :
- orchestration with detailed percussion section ;
- characters with pages of entrance ;
- table of contents.

- Charles Wuorinen : Brokeback Mountain, Leipzig : Edition Peters, 2011, 264 + 313 p.
Full score. 2 volumes. It contains :
- complete orchestra setting with detailed percussion section ;
- complete cast with tessituras ;
- table of contents.

I now have 106 scores of contemporary operas. I have catalogued all my scores on Librarything.

New recordings in my collection

I have recently acquired the following recordings of contemporary operas :

- Charles Wuorinen : Brokeback Mountain, Engel / van Hove, BelAir Classiques (DVD)

- Dominick Argento : Postcard from Morocco, conducted by Rossen Milanov (Albany) ;
- Jack Beeson : Dr. Heidegger's Fountain of Youth conducted by Thomas Martin and Hello out There conducted by Frederic Waldman (Albany) ;
- Philippe Boesmans : Au Monde, conducted by Patrick Davin (Cypres) ;

- Ricky Ian Gordon : 27, conducted by Michael Christie (Albany) ;
- Ned Rorem : Miss Julie, conducted by David Agler (Albany).

New productions of recent operas

Here are listed a few world premières and a few new productions of recent operas :

- Johannes Harneit : Abends am Fluss and Hochwasser, in Heidelberg (February 2015), conducted by Johannes Harneit, directed by Peter Konwitschny ;
- Johannes Maria Staud : Die Antilope, in Luzern (September 2014), conducted by Howard Arman, directed by Dominique Mentha ;
- Philip Glass : Akhnaten, directed by Nanine Linning, in Heidelberg (September 2014), revival ;
- Jake Heggie : Another Sunrise and For a Look or a Touch in Braunschweig (May 2015), conducted by Burkhard Bauche ;
- Bernard Herrmann : Wuthering Heights, in Braunschweig (April 2015), conducted by Enrico Delamboye, directed by Philipp Kochheim ;
- Charles Wuorinen : Brokeback Mountain, in Aachen (December 2014), conducted by Kazem Abdullah, directed by Ludger Engels. The opera was first performed in January 2014 in Madrid.

2014-2015 season at the Theater Aachen

This Monday morning, I have received in the mail the program book for the 2014-2015 season of the Theater Aachen.

The following operas will be performed there :

- Giuseppe Verdi : Luisa Miller, conducted by Kazem Abdullah, directed by Mario Corradi (new production) ;
- Charles Wuorinen : Brokeback Mountain, conducted by Justus Thorau, directed by Martin Philipp (new production). This will be the German première and the second production of this opera since the world première in Madrid last January ;
- Carl Maria von Weber : Der Freischütz, conducted by Justus Thorau, directed by Martin Philipp (new production) ;
- Leos Janacek : Jenufa, conducted by Kazem Abdullah, directed by Michael Helle (new production) ;
- Georg Friedrich Haendel : Orlando, conducted by Justus Thorau, directed by Jarg Pataki (new production) ;
- Jacques Offenbach : Les Brigands, conducted by Volker Hiemeyer, directed by Alexander von Pfeil (revival from a production to be premiered next month).

Program books for new operas, 2013-2014 season

Since September 2013, I have managed to acquire the program books for the following new operas :

- Jean-Claude Petit : Colomba, Marseille, March 8, 2014
- Mark André : Wunderzaichen, Stuttgart, March 2, 2014
- Charles Wuorinen : Brokeback Mountain, Madrid, January 28, 2014
- Eryck Abecassis : Safety First, Reims, November 30, 2013 (PDF)

 
- Marius Felix Lange : The Canterville Ghost, Zurich, November 23, 2013
- Ľubica Čekovská : Dorian Gray, Bratislava, November 8, 2013
- Iain Bell : A Harlot's Progress, Vienna (Theater an der Wien), October 13, 2013

- Øyvind Mæland: Ad undas - Solaris korrigert, Oslo, October 10, 2013
- Ales Brezina : Toufar, Prague, September 18, 2013
- Tobias Picker : Dolores Claiborne, San Francisco, September 18, 2013

 
- Tõnu Kõrvits : Butterfly, Tallinn, September 13, 2013