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The Midsummer Marriage
(Mittsommerhochzeit)
opera in three acts
Edition: Matériel d'exécution
Série:
The Midsummer Marriage
Détails du produit
Description
Like few other theatre works—The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night’s Dream—Tippett’s first opera creates a wholly other place, one where human actions can be seen as in a tilted mirror. Since this is indeed an opera, the place, or dreamspace, is conjured by music: by luminescent music that, in its flowing abundance, radiant harmonies and evocative wind colourings, represents the natural world within which the characters have to integrate themselves.
The central couple, those whose marriage is at first subverted and then gloriously celebrated, are Mark and Jenifer: he a young man of the earth and the senses, she a young woman of lofty spirituality. Each is only half a person, and before they can be united they have to be made whole, have to find within themselves an understanding of the other. Overseeing their mythic initiation and psychic healing are two Ancients, votaries of a temple on a wooded hilltop.
As in the Mozart precedent, which the composer certainly had in mind, there is also a more workaday couple, Jack and Bella. The other principals are Jenifer’s businessman father King Fisher, who wants to stop the wedding for reasons of his own, and an Erda-like seer. There is also a dancer, Strephon, leading the exuberant ballet in which the orchestra completes the story of enlightenment and passion. It is ultimately a victory of love and, before love, self-knowledge. (Paul Griffiths)
Orchestral Cast
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Programmation des personnes
Mark, a young man of unknown parentage · tenor - Jenifer, his betrothed, a young girl · soprano - King Fisher, Jenifer's father, a business man · baritone - Bella, King Fisher's secretary · soprano - Jack, Bella's boyfriend, a mechanic · tenor - Sosostris, a clairvoyant · alto - The Ancients, Priest and Priestess of the Temple · bass/mezzo-soprano - chorus of Mark's and Jenifer's friends (SATB) -
Dancers attendant on the Ancients and Strephon, one of the dancers · silent roles
Dancers attendant on the Ancients and Strephon, one of the dancers · silent roles
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Titre:
The Midsummer Marriage
(Mittsommerhochzeit)
opera in three acts
text by the composer
German translation by Claus H. Henneberg
Langue:
Allemand, Anglais
Edition:
Matériel d'exécution
Maison d'édition:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
1947 - 1952
Durée:
150 ′
Première:
27 janvier 1955 · London (UK)
Covent Garden, Royal Opera House
Pirmin Trecu; Michael Langdon; Edith Coates; Richard Lewis; Joan Sutherland; Otakar Kraus; Adele Leigh; John Lanigan; Julia Farron; Gordon Farrall; Andrew Daniels; Oralia Dominguez; · Musikalische Leitung: Sir John Pritchard
Inszenierung: Christopher West · Choreographie: John Cranko
(scenic)
Covent Garden, Royal Opera House
Pirmin Trecu; Michael Langdon; Edith Coates; Richard Lewis; Joan Sutherland; Otakar Kraus; Adele Leigh; John Lanigan; Julia Farron; Gordon Farrall; Andrew Daniels; Oralia Dominguez; · Musikalische Leitung: Sir John Pritchard
Inszenierung: Christopher West · Choreographie: John Cranko
(scenic)
Série:
Détails techniques
Numéro du produit:
LSL 4026-01
Preview/Media Contents
Audio:
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The Midsummer Marriage
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Orchestre: Boston Modern Orchestra Project
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Boston (États-Unis d'Amérique) , Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory
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The Midsummer Marriage
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The Midsummer Marriage
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16 décembre 2005 |
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