Die Weiden (The Willows)
Opera
[solos,mix ch,orch] 2016-2022 duration: 135' Choir: SATB – 3(A-fl/Picc. B-fl). 3(cor ang. musette). 3(bassetthn. db-clar). S-sax. T-sax. 2. dbl bsn – 4. 3. 3. 1 – timp. perc(4) – hp – pno. xel - str: 14. 12. 10. 8. 6 – BM: clar – trp. bsn – perc– harm – vl. va. db – live-e
Description
Opera in six parts, four passages, one prolog, one prelude, one interlude and an epilogue
Choir: SATB (at least 48 voices, max. divisia 8)
Characters: LEA, a young philosopher (Mezzosoprano) – PETER, a young artist (Baritone) – EDGAR, Peter’s old school friend (Tenor) – KITTY, Edgar’s lover (Soprano) – KRACHMEYER, composer, friend of Peter’s familie (actor) – THE TV REPORTER (actress) – LEA’S MOTHER (Mezzosoprano) – LEA’S FATHER (Tenor) – PETER’S MOTHER (Alt) – PETER’S FATHER (Bass) – THE DEMAGOGIE (Bassbaritone) – FRITZI and FRANTZI, Peter’s sistors, twins (high Sopranos) – THE WARNER ON THE SHORE (Tenor) – THE REFUGEE (mute part) – THE UPPER RANGER (Bassbaritone) – A WALKING WATER CORPSE (actress)
The opera Die Weiden is a journey ’into the heart of darkness’ along a great river in Central Europe today, which, if you will, can undoubtedly be identified as the Danube. The story oscillates between a travel journey of two lovers who fall in and out of love and, a surreal distorted observation of today’s current threatening developments.
Keywords: the Angry Citizen, the Vigilante, the increasing isolation from the outside and the brutalization of the social center – all this despite our heavily burdened history. This is achieved through pandemonium-like hallucinations of one of the protagonists as well as through the transformation motif man-to-fish.
(Johannes Maria Staud)
ChB 5389
choral score
Der Gesang der Weiden
[mix ch] duration: 5′ min. 16 voices
EAN: 9790004413906
12 pages / 23 x 30.5 cm / 77 g / stapled
ChB 5389D
choral score
Der Gesang der Weiden
[mix ch] duration: 5′ min. 16 voices
EAN: 9790004821411
13 pages / 23 x 30.5 cm / digital edition
MM 2290001
hire material
Description
Description
Opera in six parts, four passages, one prolog, one prelude, one interlude and an epilogue
Choir: SATB (at least 48 voices, max. divisia 8)
Characters: LEA, a young philosopher (Mezzosoprano) – PETER, a young artist (Baritone) – EDGAR, Peter’s old school friend (Tenor) – KITTY, Edgar’s lover (Soprano) – KRACHMEYER, composer, friend of Peter’s familie (actor) – THE TV REPORTER (actress) – LEA’S MOTHER (Mezzosoprano) – LEA’S FATHER (Tenor) – PETER’S MOTHER (Alt) – PETER’S FATHER (Bass) – THE DEMAGOGIE (Bassbaritone) – FRITZI and FRANTZI, Peter’s sistors, twins (high Sopranos) – THE WARNER ON THE SHORE (Tenor) – THE REFUGEE (mute part) – THE UPPER RANGER (Bassbaritone) – A WALKING WATER CORPSE (actress)
The opera Die Weiden is a journey ’into the heart of darkness’ along a great river in Central Europe today, which, if you will, can undoubtedly be identified as the Danube. The story oscillates between a travel journey of two lovers who fall in and out of love and, a surreal distorted observation of today’s current threatening developments.
Keywords: the Angry Citizen, the Vigilante, the increasing isolation from the outside and the brutalization of the social center – all this despite our heavily burdened history. This is achieved through pandemonium-like hallucinations of one of the protagonists as well as through the transformation motif man-to-fish.
(Johannes Maria Staud)
World premiere
World premiere: Vienna/Austria, Staatsoper, December 8, 2018