McCABE - MARTHINSEN
OPERA Josef Marais
This Town’s a Corporation Full of Crooked Streets (1969) Entertainment. Libretto (English) by Monica Smith, after Roger McGough and others.
Born 17 November 1905, Sir Lowrey’s Pass, South Africa; died 27 April 1978, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Tony Beaver (1952) Folk opera in one act. Libretto (English) by Max Berton.
Duration: 40’ Cast: T; speaker; children’s chorus; mixed chorus Orch: tpt/8perc/org/2vn.va.vc.db
Duration: 60’ Cast: 2S, 3T, 3Bar; 4 speaking roles; 5 dancers; chorus Orch: 1(pic)1(ca)11/1000/perc(timp)/str Alt. orch: pf
A work intended for young adults in its attitudes towards war and morality and its moods of sentimentality and humour. The words are drawn from the works of the ‘Liverpool poets’, matched by music with a great affection for McCabe’s native city. The five movements (Liverpool 8, Domestic Life, Nocturne, The Dance of Death and Finale) each reflect a different aspect of reality, whether humorously in the kitchen, in the ‘midnight hour’ of young lovers, in the horror of war, or in a kaleidoscopic ‘rough and tumble’ of nonsense songs.
When you have met Tony Beaver you may say, ‘The things that happen to Tony can never happen to me’ and no doubt you will be right. For in your workaday world, the melons you plant will turn out to be no more than melon-sized, while in Tony’s realm, melons may grow as big as moons. Tony has all the resources of folklore at his command, its ingenuity, its wonder and he walks hand-in-hand with fabulous kinsmen – Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Davy Crockett – inhabitants of a realm where the unbelievable is believable, where the dreams and the doings are scaled to tall measure. Tony is confronted by barriers, assailed by doubt; he is despairing, yet his quest continues, as, blundering from defeat to defeat, he is ultimately victorious.
Publisher: Novello & Co Ltd.
James McKelvy Born 1917, USA; died 21 March 2003
Christmas Madrigal Dinner/Charles Wesley Script by Jane Peltz.
Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.
Duration: 50’ Cast: adult chorus, children’s chorus Orch: pf Publisher: Shawnee Press
Steven Margoshes Born 1946, USA
Jack Sound and His Dog, Star, Blowing His Final Trumpet on the Day of Doom (1974) A concert-theatre piece. Text (English) by Gerome Ragni and James Rado.
Leevi Antti Madetoja Born 17 February 1887, Oulu, Finland; died 6 October 1947, Helsinki, Finland
Duration: 95’ Cast: 12 singers Orch: 10 instruments
Pohjalaisia (The Ostrobothnians) (1920-3) Opera. Libretto (Finnish) by the composer and A. Järviluoma.
The work examines the cosmic link between the human race and the dog star Sirius and offers a message of hope, chance for a new world and a rebirth.
Duration: 120’ Cast: 2S, 2T, Bar, 2B Orch: 2222/4331/timp.perc/str
Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc. Vocal score for sale
On leave back home, Antti spends time alone with his fiancée, Maija. Jussi, another young farmer, hands over Antti’s prison pass on demand, but the sheriff knocks Jussi’s hat off his head with his whip and Jussi breaks the whip over his knee. Antti must go back to jail. Maija offers to help him flee. Village merrymaking is disrupted by hoodlums, but Jussi beats their leader in a wrestling match. Accusing Jussi of having helped Antti to escape, the sheriff once again uses his whip on him. Enraged, Jussi breaks his handcuffs. The sheriff fires two shots; Jussi, plunging his knife in the sheriff’s chest, falls down, mortally wounded.
Roger Marsh Born 10 December 1949, Bournemouth, UK
Dum (1973) Theatre piece. Texts (English) compiled by the composer from Emerson, Donne, Rossetti, Dante and Brooke. Duration: 14’ Cast: singer/actor Orch: 6443/3430/perc/str(0.0.4.4.4) Publisher: Novello & Co Ltd. Score for sale
Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen
Gian Francesco Malipiero Born 18 March 1882, Venice, Italy; died 1 August 1973, Treviso, Italy
Niels Marthinsen
L’Orfeide (1918-22) Opera in three parts. Libretto by the composer.
Born 10 August 1963, Århus, Denmark
Dr. Jekylls Advokat (Dr. Jekyll’s Lawyer) (2013) Opera in two acts. Libretto (Danish) by Eva Littauer.
Translation available: English Duration: full eve Cast: Part I: 4T, 3Bar, 1B; silent man: Part II: S, T, 4Bar; chorus: Part III: S, 3T, Bar; actors Orch: 4333/4331/timp.perc/hp.pf/str Alt. orch: 1221/2110/timp.perc/hp.pf/str
Duration: 90’ Cast: S, Mz, T, 2Bar, B Orch: 2cl(2bcl), 2tbn, perc, acn, vn, vc
A female lawyer, Jane Utterson, is hired by the Dr. Jekyll to draw up his will. Dr. Jekyll wants to bequeath his belongings to the mysterious Mr. Hyde, whom he describes as his assistant. Dr. Jekyll charms his lawyer and the opera develops into an erotic and violent drama between Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and Ms. Utterson.
L’Orfeide is not a set of three operas in one act, but a single opera in three parts. Parts I and II, however, can be performed independently. Part I introduces the seven Masques and Orpheus himself. Part II presents a continuous sequence of dramatic episodes, each telling its own miniature story - there are seven, like the Masques of Part I and the Eighth, a Canzona (Part III), represents Orpheus who also appeared at the end of Part I, thus sealing the cycle’s unity.
Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen
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