Morse - FRAU SCHINDLER

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the composer

photo by Daniel Rothenberg

Thomas Morse received a bachelor’s degree in composition from the University of North Texas, He pursued a master’s degree at USC in Los Angeles where he continued studies in composition with an added interest in film composing. Morse has written scores for more than a dozen feature films including “The Big Brass Ring” (Orson Welles’ final script, with William Hurt and Miranda Richardson), “The Sisters” (Maria Bello and Elizabeth Banks), and “The Apostate” (Dennis Hopper), as well as the noted orchestral score for Jerry Bruckheimer’s hit CBS series “The Amazing Race.” With a desire to renew focus on concert composition, Morse moved to Berlin. It was there that he began research for Frau Schindler.

Thomas Morse Frau Schindler an opera in three acts (2017)

Frau Schindler

synopsis

An opera in three acts (2017)

As an ordinary couple who became increasingly immersed in extraordinary circumstances, Emilie and Oskar Schindler found themselves faced with the ultimate moral decision. Told from Emilie Schindler’s perspective, Frau Schindler examines how two living, breathing human beings who essentially endure the same daily wartime experiences can see them from two very different points of view. It is the story of a woman’s survival and heroism in the heart of one of the darkest periods in human history. The story from her perspective provides a window into the psychology of the times — how step by step, an advanced society was slowly seduced into the unthinkable.

Score by Thomas Morse Libretto by Kenneth Cazan Duration: full evening Premiere: March 2017, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich, Germany

cast list

Nazi Officer 1: Tenor Nazi Officer 2 (Adolf’s assistant): Tenor Nazi Officer 2 (Klein’s assistant): Tenor Wife 1 (Hilde): Soprano Wife 2 (Esther Rechen): Soprano Wife 3 (Sali Hirschberg): Mezzo Soprano Guard 1 (Commander Klein): Baritone Guard 2 (Train Conductor): Baritone Guard 3 (Peter Gorlinksy): Baritone

Emilie Schindler: mezzo soprano Oskar Schindler: Lyric Baritone Marthe Marker: Lyric soprano Frau von Daubek: Damatic soprano Richard Rechen: Baritone (chorus) Szymon Hirschbirg: Baritone (chorus) Quartermaster Shneefeld (train engi- neer): Baritone Young Woman: Lyric soprano Radio announcer: Speaker Cantor: Speaker Chorus

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CRITICS RAVE ABOUT FRAU SCHINDLER “Morse puts the fiery speech of Schindler, before Nazi minions, that he needs Jewish forced laborers for his factory, with the first 54 bars of the original Tristan prelude.”

- Applaus Kultur-Magazin “Morse’s neo-romantic musical composition owes much to the techniques of film music that made the composer’s success... contemporary emotional music that has the great advantage of being easy to embrace on first hearing.... [He approaches] the extremely sensitive and delicate history of the Holocaust without ever falling into a dramatization with too simple an effect.

- Opera World (Spain) “Morse knows how to transform images into music…”

- Musik Heute

Frau Schindler

synopsis

An opera in three acts (2017)

As an ordinary couple who became increasingly immersed in extraordinary circumstances, Emilie and Oskar Schindler found themselves faced with the ultimate moral decision. Told from Emilie Schindler’s perspective, Frau Schindler examines how two living, breathing human beings who essentially endure the same daily wartime experiences can see them from two very different points of view. It is the story of a woman’s survival and heroism in the heart of one of the darkest periods in human history. The story from her perspective provides a window into the psychology of the times — how step by step, an advanced society was slowly seduced into the unthinkable.

Score by Thomas Morse Libretto by Kenneth Cazan Duration: full evening Premiere: March 2017, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich, Germany

cast list

Nazi Officer 1: Tenor Nazi Officer 2 (Adolf’s assistant): Tenor Nazi Officer 2 (Klein’s assistant): Tenor Wife 1 (Hilde): Soprano Wife 2 (Esther Rechen): Soprano Wife 3 (Sali Hirschberg): Mezzo Soprano Guard 1 (Commander Klein): Baritone Guard 2 (Train Conductor): Baritone Guard 3 (Peter Gorlinksy): Baritone

Emilie Schindler: mezzo soprano Oskar Schindler: Lyric Baritone Marthe Marker: Lyric soprano Frau von Daubek: Damatic soprano Richard Rechen: Baritone (chorus) Szymon Hirschbirg: Baritone (chorus) Quartermaster Shneefeld (train engi- neer): Baritone Young Woman: Lyric soprano Radio announcer: Speaker Cantor: Speaker Chorus

orchestra 1(pic).1(ca).1(bcl).1(cbn)/0.3.0.0/2perc(timp)/cel.hp.pf/str

CRITICS RAVE ABOUT FRAU SCHINDLER “Morse puts the fiery speech of Schindler, before Nazi minions, that he needs Jewish forced laborers for his factory, with the first 54 bars of the original Tristan prelude.”

- Applaus Kultur-Magazin “Morse’s neo-romantic musical composition owes much to the techniques of film music that made the composer’s success... contemporary emotional music that has the great advantage of being easy to embrace on first hearing.... [He approaches] the extremely sensitive and delicate history of the Holocaust without ever falling into a dramatization with too simple an effect.

- Opera World (Spain) “Morse knows how to transform images into music…”

- Musik Heute

Learn more about Frau Schindler at www.musicsalesclassical.com.

Photos from Frau Schindler © Christian POCO Zach

For more information contact Peggy Monastra, peggy.monastra@schirmer.com, 212-254-2100.

ORDERING INFORMATION Rental orders and fee quotations: Zinfonia.com or MusicSalesClassical.com/licensing

Perusal scores: MusicaSalesClassical.com/OnDemand

Sales materials: MusicDispatch.com or MusicRoom.com or your music dealer

Publisher and Agency Representation for the Music Sales Group: MusicSalesClassical.com/rental

The Music Sales Group of Companies USA: G. Schirmer, Inc. Associated Music Publishers, Inc.

UK: Chester Music Ltd Novello & Co Ltd

France: Alphonse Leduc Chant du Monde Chester Music France Les Editions Choudens

Spain: Unión Musical Ediciones

Denmark: Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS

Germany: Music Sales Classical Berlin

schirmer@schirmer.com

chesterfrance@musicsales.co.uk

ewh@ewh.dk

promotion@musicsales.co.uk

unionmusicalediciones@musicsales.co.uk

Australia: G. Schirmer Pty Ltd publishing@musicsales.com.au

classical.berlin@musicsales.co.uk

the composer

photo by Daniel Rothenberg

Thomas Morse received a bachelor’s degree in composition from the University of North Texas, He pursued a master’s degree at USC in Los Angeles where he continued studies in composition with an added interest in film composing. Morse has written scores for more than a dozen feature films including “The Big Brass Ring” (Orson Welles’ final script, with William Hurt and Miranda Richardson), “The Sisters” (Maria Bello and Elizabeth Banks), and “The Apostate” (Dennis Hopper), as well as the noted orchestral score for Jerry Bruckheimer’s hit CBS series “The Amazing Race.” With a desire to renew focus on concert composition, Morse moved to Berlin. It was there that he began research for Frau Schindler.

Thomas Morse Frau Schindler an opera in three acts (2017)