Border

Fassung mit reduziertem Orchester

Jugendoper nach einem Fluchtplan von Euripides

Aft er the politcal murder of her father, Makaria and her siblings are forced to fl ee from their native country. They separate to shake off pursuers. Their aim is to reach an old companion of their father who is still alive and living in exile. Makaria is the first to arrive at the arranged meeting point and encounters the old man’s son. Both immediately recognise that they are kindred souls and fall deeply in love with each other. Their happiness is however curtailed as Makaria must accompany her siblings to a safe place once they have arrived. Now the young man does everything in his powers not to lose Makaria. His love makes him into a traitor. The required professional ensemble can be augmented in the chorus with children and young persons. The reduced version is characterised by its single woodwind scoring.

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Series: Border

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Border takes up motifs from the tragedy The Children of Heracles by Euripides and transfers them into the world of young people living now under a totalitarian regime who are in fear of their lives. The constraints to which Makaria and her siblings are subjected while fleeing after the politically motivated murder of their father are shaped by the tensions between flight and expulsion, asylum and responsibility, love and violence and emotion and morals. Border is a cooperative project between the opera ensemble and opera studio at Cologne Opera, a choir from the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, an extra choir consisting of young persons from Cologne and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne.

Orchestral Cast

1 (auch Picc. u. Altfl.) · 1 (auch Engl. Hr.) · 1 (auch Bassklar.) · 1 (auch Kfg.) - 2 · 1 · 1 · 0 · Kb.-Tb. - P. S. (Crot. · Glsp. · Xyl. · Vibr. · Marimba · Röhrengl. · Beckenpaar · hg. Beck. · Ride-Beck. · Crash-Beck. · Hi-Hat · Tamt. · Stahlschiene [Doppel-T-Stück] mit Werkzeughammer · Metal Chimes · Tomt. [auch auf Ständer] · Congas · 2 Davul · kl. Tr. · Drum Set · gr. Tr. · Holzbl. · Tempelbl. · Kasik (oder Kast.) · Peitsche · Trillerpf. · Pistolenschuss · mech. Schreibmaschine · Kleinteile) (3 Spieler) - Klav. (auch Cemb.) - Str. (3 · 0 · 3 · 3 · 1)

Cast

Ioalos · Bariton - Farid · Tenor - Makaria · Sopran - Abiah · Mezzosopran - Manol · Bariton - Kopreus · schwarzer Bass - vierstimmiger gemischter Chor

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Title:

Border

Fassung mit reduziertem Orchester

Jugendoper nach einem Fluchtplan von Euripides

Libretto von Stephanie Schiller

Konzept und Stückentwicklung von Annika Haller

nach einer Idee von Elena Tzavara

Language:

German

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

2011 - 2012 (2013)

Duration:

90 ′0 ′′

World Premiere:

April 17, 2013 · Karlsruhe (D)
Staatstheater, Kleines Haus
Armin Kolarczyk, Ioalas; Andrew Finden, Farid; Jennifer Riedel, Makaria; Dilara Baştar, Abiah*; Christina Bock, Abiah*; Max Friedrich Schäffer, Manol; Florian Kontschak, Kopreus*; Luiz Molz, Kopreus* · Conductor: Steven Moore · Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe; Jugendchor der Lutherana Karlsruhe; Karlsruher Schülerinnen und Schüler · Choir director: Dorothea Lehmann-Horsch; Hans-Jörg Kalmbach; Stefan Neubert
Original staging: Ulrike Stöck · Costumes: Gabriele Kortmann · Set design: Fred Pommerehn
(scenic)

Commissioned work :

Auftragswerk der Oper Köln / Kinderoper

Series:

Border

Keywords:

#tragedy #sacrifice #present #exile #euripides #escape #treason #siblings #Patricide #Torn apart