New recordings of contemporary operas in my collection

Since last September, I have acquired several recordings of contemporary operas :

- Pascal Dusapin : Penthesilea, recorded live at La Monnaie in Brussels in April 2015, during the first run of performances.
The cast includes mezzo Natascha Petrinsky, soprano Marisol Montalvo, baritone Georg Nigl and bass baritone Werner van Mechelen. Franck Ollu conducts La Monnaie symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
The recording is published by Cypres.

- John Harbison : Full Moon in March, recorded at Sonic Temple (Roslindale, MA) in June 2003.
The opera was first performed on April 30, 1979.
The cast includes mezzo Lorraine Disimone, soprano Anne Harley, tenor Frank Kelley, baritone James Maddalena and mezzo Janna Baty. Gil Rose conducts the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
The recording is published by BMOP sound.

- Tobias Picker : Fantastic Mr. Fox, recorded in Fraser Hall at WGBH Studios in Boston (MA) on December 8, 2014.
The cast includes tenor John Brancy, mezzo Krista River, bass baritone Andrew Craig Brown, tenor Edwin Vega, baritone Gabriel Preisser, soprano Elizabeth Futral and mezzo Tynan Davis. Gil Rose conducts the Boston Children's Chorus and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
The recording is published by BMOP sound.

- Wolfgang Rihm : Jakob Lenz, recorded live at La Monnaie in Brussels in March 2015.
The cast includes baritone Georg Nigl, bass baritone Henry Waddington and tenor John Graham-Hall. Franck Ollu conducts La Monnaie symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Andrea Breth directs.
The DVD is publised by Alpha.

- Pascal Zavaro : Manga-Café, recorded in Rochefort in May 2018, following the world première in Compiègne.
The cast includes mezzo Eléonore Pancrazi and soprano Morgane Heyse. Julien Masmondet conducts Les Apaches.
The recording is published by Maguelone.

I have catalogued all my opera recordings on LibraryThing.

New in my collection : 4 program books from the USA and Canada

I have recently received four new program books published by opera houses from the USA and Canada :

- Philip Glass : Appomattox, Washington (National Opera at the Kennedy Center), November 14, 2015 (world première of the new version). The 36 pages brochure contains : complete cast and crew, articles by composer Philip Glass, librettist Christopher Hampton, director Tazewell Thompson, a timeline of historical events of the opera, biographies of the artists ;

- Barbara Monk Feldman : Pyramus and Thisbe, Toronto (Canadian Opera Company at the Four Seasons Centre), October 20, 2015 (world première). The new opera was the third and last part of the evening also including performance of Claudio Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna and Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. The 48 pages brochure contains : Who's Who at the COC this Fall, Director's Notes and Synopses on Three Musical Tales by Christopher Alden ; Ovid Reconfigured by Amy Beal. It also contains information on Verdi's La Traviata, performed the same month.

- Tobias Picker : Emmeline, Saint Louis (Opera Theatre at the Loretto-Hilton Center), June 13, 2015 (new production). The 168 pages book contains (besides 58 pages of advertisement) all the articles on the complete 2015 season at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, also including Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Puccini's La Rondine and Haendel's Riccardo Primo. The part of it related to Emmeline includes : complete cast and crew, synopsis, a note from the stage director James Robinson, a note from the composer, a conversation with librettist J. D. McClatchy (9 pages altogether), artists' profiles ;

- Gregory Spears : O Columbia, Houston (Grand Opera at the Revention Music Center), September 23, 2015 (world première). The 16 pages brochure contains : complete cast and crew, synopsis, who's who, a conversation with the creative team.

Here is a link to a flickr folder with the covers of all 380 program books for contemporary operas I have in my collection.

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