tue 4 feb 2020 17:00 hrs
Composers: David Conte | Einojuhani Rautavaara | Karlheinz Stockhausen | Lowell Liebermann | Per Nørgård | Peter Maxwell Davies | Tan Dun | Tobias Picker | Wolfgang Rihm
The history of twentieth century opera.
1996B: Without exaggerating, I think it’s fair to say that 1996 was a great year for the opera; both in volume and quality. There were many American works to enjoy as well as the first Spanish-language opera to order in the USA. And the American Tobias Picker composed his first opera.
Furthermore, you can listen to well-known names like Phillip Glass and Peter Maxwell Davies. And let’s not forget the opera of the Chinese composer Tan Dun, which has become a cult by now.
In today’s episode fragments from:
- Daniel Catán – Florencia en el Amazonas
- Tan Dun (photo) – Marco Polo
- Per Nørgård – Nuit des Hommes
Other opera and light opera productions from 1996 are:
- David Conte – The Dreamers
- Daniel Catán – Florencia en el Amazonas
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Freitag aus Licht
- Alexander von Zemlinsky – Der König Kandaules
- Tan Dun – Marco Polo
- Per Nørgård – Nuit des Hommes
- Lowell Liebermann – The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Richard Mills – Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
- Daron Hagen – Vera of Las Vegas
- Peter Maxwell Davies – The Doctor of Maddfya
- Tobias Picker – Emmeline
- Phillip Glass – Les enfants terribles
- Lorenzo Ferrerro – La nascita di Orfeo
- Jack Beeson – Sorry, Wrong Number
- Einojuhani Rautavaara – Aleksis Kivi
- Wolfgang Rihm – Séraphin (part 2; Zustand)
- Iain Hamilton – On the Eve
- Jin Xiang – Native fatal Woman
- Matthew King – Jonah
- Azio Corghi – Isabella
