Summer

Name: Summer
Brand: Schott Music
SKU: 232033
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opera in two acts

libretto by Joan Vail Thorne

Edition: Matériel d'exécution

Type de produit

Demande de location

Détails du produit

Description

This opera is set in the early 1900’s in the small town of North Dormer located in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. The novel‘s heroine, eighteen-year-old Charity Royall, is bored with her life in the small town of North Dormer and ignorant of desire until she meets a visiting architect, Lucius Harney. Like the lush summer of the Berkshires around them, their romance is shimmering and idyllic, but its consequences are harsh and real. Wharton‘s prose, her raw depiction of the mountain community where Charity was born, the intrusion into Charity‘s bedroom by her guardian, Lawyer Royall, and Charity‘s rites of passage into adulthood elevate Summer into a study of society, nature, and human needs.

Orchestral Cast

2.1.2.1-2.1.1(btbn).0-timp.2perc(glsp, crot, xyl, vib, bell tree, tri, large sus cym, crash cym, h.h, tamb, s.d, tom-t, b.d, brake d, chimes, high wdbl, low wdbl, tempbl, slapstick, sandbl)-hp-str(6.5.3.3.1)

Programmation des personnes

Principal: Charity Royall, an 18year old Girl · mezzo-soprano - Lucius Harney, her Lover, an Architect from the nearby town Nettleton · baritone – Lawyer Royall, Charity’s Warden · bass-baritone -
Supporting: Liff Hyatt, Charity’s Cousin · baritone (also: 2nd Man from Nettleton, Bash Hyatt) - Miss Hatchard, an elderly Woman · soprano (also: 1st Woman from Nettleton) - Verena Marsh, 60 year old House Maiden with Lawyer Royall · mezzo-soprano (also: old Mrs Hyatt, Girl from Nettleton) - Ally Hawes, Charity’s School Mate · soprano (also: Wife of Bash Hyatt, 2nd Woman from Nettleton) - Reverend Miles, Reverend from Nettleton and Friend of Mrs Hatchard · tenor (also: 1st man from Nettleton) - Annabel Balch, Lucius Harnell’s Fiancée · soprano (also: Prostitute)

Plus d'infos

Titre:

Summer

opera in two acts

libretto by Joan Vail Thorne

after the novella by Edith Wharton

Langue:

Anglais

Edition:

Matériel d'exécution

Maison d'édition:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

1999

Durée:

115 ′0 ′′

Première:

28 août 1999 · Pittsfield, MA (USA)
Koussevitsky Arts Center
Musikalische Leitung: Joel Revzen
Inszenierung: Mary Duncan · Kostüme: Helen E. Rodgers · Bühnenbild: David P. Gordon
(scenic)

Travaux commandés :

Commissioned by Berkshire Opera Company, Sanford H. Fisher, General Director, Joel Revzen, Artistic Director and Edith Wharton Restoration