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Bing

Szene für zwei Soprane, zwei Sprecher und Kammerorchester
nach einem Text von Samuel Beckett
2 sopranos, 2 speakers and chamber orchestra
Edition: Performance material

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Description

The title Bing refers to Beckett’s eponymous play of 1966. The play presents us with a single, surreal setting: a naked man standing in a white cube. The script consists of several speech fragments, brought together into a circuit of new, composite phrases. Only two words manage to cut through the ceaseless circling: BING, often connected to the quest for nature, meaning, images, a fellow human being and the way out; and HOP, often followed by the word “elsewhere”, perhaps referring to a change of place and scenery. “I had a completely frozen music theatre in mind”, explains Detlev Müller-Siemens; a music theatre “consisting of three levels: fi rstly the main character, who – because of his isolation – hears him/herself speaking with a stranger’s voice, and is thus impersonated by two vocal parts; secondly the two speakers, who classify the action with permanent comments from the outside; and thirdly the chamber orchestra, functioning as a sterile environment – just like the cube with its white walls – where ‘signs without meaning’ appear, fi lling the space with ‘whispered gibberish’. [...] In spite of this frozen constellation, I think that Bing’s adaptation into an ‘Opera’ allows fundamentally human topics such as loneliness, love and death to shine through. (Source: Theater Bonn 2001)

Orchestral Cast

2 (1. auch Picc.) · 2 (2. auch Engl. Hr.) · 2 (1. auch Es-Klar., 2. auch Bassklar.) · 2 (2. auch Kfg.) - 2 · 2 · 0 · 0 - S. (Glsp. · Xyl. · Xylorimba · Vibr. · Crot. · 3 hg. Beck. · Tamt. [sehr t.] · 3 Bong. · kl. Tr. · Tomt. [sehr t.] · gr. Tr. · Clav. · 3 Tempelbl. · Metallplatte) (2 Spieler) - 2 Klav. (eines 1/4-Ton herabgestimmt) - Str. (2 · 0 · 2 · 2 · 2 [mit H-Saite])

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Title:
Bing
Szene für zwei Soprane, zwei Sprecher und Kammerorchester
nach einem Text von Samuel Beckett
Übersetzung von Elmar Tophoven
Language:
German
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Ars Viva Verlag
Year of composition:
1999 - 2001
World Premiere:
December 13, 2001 · Bonn (D)
Forum der Bundeskunsthalle
bonn chance!
Conductor: Wolfgang Ott
Original staging: Bettina Erasmy / Michael Simon · Costumes: Michael Simon · Set desing: Michael Simon
(scenic) (scenic performance)
Commissioned work :
Auftragswerk der Stadt Bonn

Technical Details

Product number:
LAVV 2991-01

Performances

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  • Bing
    bonn chance!
    Conductor: Wolfgang Ott
    December 18, 2001 | Bonn (Germany) , Forum der Bundeskunsthalle
  • Bing
    bonn chance!
    Conductor: Wolfgang Ott
    December 16, 2001 | Bonn (Germany) , Forum der Bundeskunsthalle
  • Bing
    bonn chance!
    Conductor: Wolfgang Ott
    December 15, 2001 | Bonn (Germany) , Forum der Bundeskunsthalle
  • Bing
    bonn chance!
    Conductor: Wolfgang Ott
    December 14, 2001 | Bonn (Germany) , Forum der Bundeskunsthalle
  • Bing
    bonn chance!
    Conductor: Wolfgang Ott
    December 13, 2001 | Bonn (Germany) , Forum der Bundeskunsthalle — World Premiere (szenische Aufführung)
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