tue 6 aug 2019 17:00 hour
The history of twentieth century opera. 1983B.
1983: Modernism and serialism are there to stay. What nobody ever dared to believe happens: everybody does as they please. Conventions are thrown overboard, music theory is for uncreative people, and new-to-opera elements are introduced as if they have always been there. This episode features two composers, both of whom left their personal mark on the post-war opera landscape.
In this episode fragments of:
- Per Nørgård- Siddharta
- Mieczysław Weinberg- The portrait (Портрет)
Other opera and operetta productions from 1983:
- Karlheinz Stockhausen- Samstag aus Licht
- Hans Werner Henze- The English Cat
- Giselher Klebe- Die Fastnachtsbeichte
- Leonard Bernstein- A Quiet Place
- Olivier Messiaen- Saint François d’Assise
- Thomas Pasatieri- Maria Elena
- Tikhon Khrennikov- Dorothea
- Yuliy Meitus- Иван Грозный
- Minoru Miki- うたよみざる (Utayomizaru – The Monkey Poet)
- Stephen Oliver-Blondel
- Iain Hamilton- Lancelot
- Vladimir Kobekin- Pugachev (Пугачев)
- Philippe Boesmans- La Passion de Gilles