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composer: Chaya Czernowin - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Dedication: Adama is dedicated to Peter Ruzicka
Premiere: 17./19./20. August 2006 Salzburg, Landestheater ∙ Salzburger Festspiele 2006 ∙ Koproduktion mit dem Theater Basel ∙ Konzeption und Regie Claus Guth, Ausstattung Christian Schmidt ∙ Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Dirigent Ivor Bolton (Mozart) ∙ Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik, Dirigent Johannes Kalitzke (Czernowin) ∙ mit: John Mark Ainsley, Mojca Erdmann, Topi Lehtipuu, Johan Reuter ∙ Noa Frenkel, Alt, Yaron Windmüller, Bariton, Andreas Fischer, Bass
Orchestra instrumentation: Zaïde (Mozart): 2 · 2 · 0 · 2 - 2 · 2 · 0 · 0 - P. - Str.; Adama (Czernowin) (zweiter Dirigent erforderlich): 1 (auch Picc. und Bassfl.) · 0 · 2 (beide auch Bassklar.) · 0 - 0 · 0 · 1 · 0 - S. (2 Spieler) (gr. Shaker · Sandpapierbl. · Rain stick · gr. Eimer · Holzbl. · Tempelbl. · gr. Tr. · Notenständer mit Sperrholz · Crot. · Marimba. · Ratsche · Kamm · Superball · Tomt. · 2 kl. Tr. · Donnerblech · Holzkiste · gr. Militärtr. · Conga · 2 Plastikfl. · 2 Guiros · 2 Maracas · hg. Beck. · Ocean dr. · Almagl. · Bongos)- Str. (1 · 0 · 1 · 2 · 2)
Cast of characters: Zaïde (Mozart): Zaïde · Soprano – Gomatz · Tenor – Allazim · Bass – Sultan Soliman · Tenor – Osmin · Bass – 4 Sklaven · 4 Tenöre – Zaram, Oberster der Leibwache · Sprecher – Leibwache · Tenöre, Bässe; Adama (Czernowin): Frau (tiefer Alt) · Mann (Bariton) · Vater (Bass) ; 5 gem. Männerstimmen
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 130' 0''
Year of composition: (1779 / 2004-05)
Edition: score
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Description:

In the year 1779 Mozarts ZAIDE posed the question about the possibilities of a dialogue between the Occident and the Orient. This Singspiel is a kind of tragic version of Die Entführung aus dem Serail which has a happy and merciful ending and once again emphatically invokes the spirit of the Enlightenment. ZAIDE was never completed and exists only as a fragment. The overture, the dialogues and the finale are all missing and the outcome of the story remains unclear. The Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin has reacted to this. In her work ADAMA (Hebrew: adama = earth, adam = man, dam = blood) she composes an independent musical sound space and regards the subject from a contemporary perspective. Whereas ZAIDE describes the conflict between the civilisations using the story of a European couple who are in love and who are held in slavery in an alien Oriental country, the situation as described by Chaya Czernowin is intensified, touches on the question of freedom and imprisonment from a different dimension. The lovers themselves speak two languages and encounter each other as foreigners, as a man from Palestine and an Israeli woman. Adama is therefore not the completion of a Mozart fragment and the overall project ZAIDE / ADAMA is not a closed entirety. Through Adama it is much more a matter of trying to find corresponding and contradictory features in an incomplete historical work. The various musical spheres are interwoven and enter a dialogue. This interplay of sound opens up the possibility of hearing each different musical cosmos with purified ears and of perhaps discovering unforeseen common features.

Recordings:

Zaïde / Adama (2006)

Chaya Czernowin

Zaïde / Adama

Mojca Erdmann · Topi Lehtipuu · John Mark Ainsley · Johan Reuter · Renato Girolami · Noa Frenkel · Yaron Windmüller · Andreas Fischer · Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg · oenm - Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik · Ivor Bolton ·Johannes Kalitzke / Staged by Claus Guth · Directed by Andreas Morell / Stereo: PCM / Surround: DTS 5.1 / Subtitles: German, English ,French, Spanish / Picture Format: 16:9 / A production of UNITEL and BFMI in co-production with 3sat and Classica in co-operation with SALZBURG FESTIVAL
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2 DVD-VIDEO NTSC 073 425-2
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