Flames (Plameny)

Name: Flames (Plameny)
Brand: Schott Music
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A musical tragicomedy in two (three) acts by Karel Josef Beneš

German translation by Max Brod

As early as the 1920s, Erwin Schulhoff studied Karel Josef Beneš’ poem about the Don Juan myth. In his version of the incorrigible womanizer, Beneš retained only the outward features of Tirso de Molina’s and Molière’s figure of Don Juan and parodied its traditional characterization. Schulhoff’s tragi-comedy Flammen was only performed once in his lifetime, in Brno in 1932 in a one-act version of the original with a reduced wind section. But with it he created a surreal and psychoanalytical interpretation of the Don Juan legend that sweeps Mozart, Expressionism and jazz into an allusive and shimmering score.

Edition: Matériel d'exécution

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Description

Homage to Mozart of a special kind: in his approach to the Don Juan myth, Schulhoff does not portray the libertine as a sexual predator, but as a figure eternally driven by desire. In contrast to Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the hero is not sent to hell but, like Wagner’s Flying Dutchman, is condemned to an eternal search for love and redemption. Two archaic principles, the "flames" of life (symbolised by the male figure of Don Juan) and the "flames" of death (represented by the female figure La Morte), yearn to be unified, but mutually repel each other. Man and woman, life and death, yearning and fulfilment and hope and resignation are set in Erwin Schulhoff’s only work for the stage as bold dualisms in a fascinating interplay.

Orchestral Cast

Picc. · 1 · 1 · Engl. Hr. · 1 (auch Es-Klar.) · Bassklar. · 1 · Kfg. - 4 · 1 · 0 · 0 - P. S. (Klaviaturglsp. · Xyl. · Vibr. · Trgl. · Gl. · Schellen · Beckenpaar · Tamt. · Schellentr. · Tomt. · Mil. Tr. · kl. Tr. · gr. Tr. m. Beck. · Kast. · Ratsche · Guiro · Sir. [Torpedo]) (5 Spieler) - Hfe. · Cel. · Org. (hinter der Szene) - Str. (12 · 10 · 8 · 6 · 6) -
Bühnenmusik: 3 Trp. - Jazzband I (Sopransax. · Tenorsax - Korn. - S. [Beck. · 2 Holztr. · 2 Tomt. · Mil. Tr. · gr. Tr.] - Tenorbanjo · Klav.) od. Jazzband II (Altsax. · Tenorsax. - Traps - Tenorbanjo · Klav. - Vl. [obligat])

Programmation des personnes

Don Juan · Tenor (heldisch) - Eine Frau / Eine Nonne / Donna Anna · Mezzosopran - La Morte · Mezzosopran (auch Alt) - Sechs Frauenschatten · 3 Sopran-, 3 Altstimmen (kann auch doppelt bis dreifach besetzt werden) - Frauenchor hinter der Szene - Gemischter Chor (8. Bild) - stumme Rollen: Masken, Frauen (Harlekin, Pantalon, Pierrot, Pierrette, Colombine, während des Vorspiels zum zweiten Aufzug)
weitere Rollen ad lib.: Margarethe · Sopran - Der Komtur · Bariton (heldisch) - Pulcinella · Tenor (Buffo) - Pantalon · Bass (Buffo) - Harlekin · Bass (Buffo)

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Titre:

Flames (Plameny)

A musical tragicomedy in two (three) acts by Karel Josef Beneš

German translation by Max Brod

Edited by Andreas Krause

Langue:

Allemand, Tchèque

Edition:

Matériel d'exécution

Maison d'édition:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

1923 - 1929 (1932)

Durée:

140 ′0 ′′

Première:

16 avril 1994 · Berlin (D)
Großer Sendesaal des SFB
Jane Eaglen, Sopran; Gabriele Schreckenbach, Mezzosopran; Kurt Westi, Tenor; Johann Werner Prein, Bariton; Kelly Anderson, Bass · Musikalische Leitung: John Mauceri · Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

(concert) (world première as concert of the complete version)

17 mars 1995 · Leipzig (D)
Oper
Musikalische Leitung: Jörg Krüger
Inszenierung: Uwe Wand · Kostüme: Johannes Conen · Bühnenbild: Johannes Conen
Veranstalter: Oper Leipzig
(scenic)

Mots clés:

#hommage #myth #homage #Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart #fire #don giovanni #don juan #heat