tue 5 may 2020 17:00 hour
Composers: Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa | Eric Whitacre | Flavio Testi | Hans Werner Henze | Jörg Widmann | Karlheinz Stockhausen | Michael Nyman | Michel van der Aa | Olga Neuwirth | Osvaldo Golijov | Pascal Dusapin | Philip Glass | Robert Ashley | Thea Musgrave | William Bolcom
The history of twentieth century opera.
2003A.
2003: From Argentina to Austria and Finland in one broadcast. We’re travelling fast and ‘global’in opera land. The one-dimensional opera format is falling apart in different pieces that arouse sometimes recognition, and sometimes not. Anyway, there is a lot to choose from.
In today’s episode parts from:
- Osvaldo Golijov (photo) – Ainadamar
- Olga Neuwirth – Lost Highway
- Einojuhani Raatavaara – Raspoetin
Other opera and light opera productions from 2003 are:
- Thea Musgrave – Pontalba
- Robert Ashley – Celestial Excursions
- Michael Nyman – Man and Boy (dada)
- Constantine Koukias – Tesla – Lightning in His Hand
- Jin Xiang- Taxiwayi – The Beloved Troubadour
- William Bolcom – A Wedding
- Azio Corghi – Sen’ja
- Bo Holten – Gesualdo
- Jonathan Mills – The Eternity Man
- Jörg Widmann – Das Gesicht im Spiegel
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Sontag am Licht
- Rachel Portman – The Little Prince
- Somtow Sucharitkul – Mae Naak
- Keith Burstein – Manifest Destiny
- Michel van der Aa – One
- Eric Whitacre – Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings
- Pascal Dusapin – Perelà, uomo di fumo (Man of Smoke)
- Sadie Thompson – Rain
- Flavio Testi – Saül
- Philip Glass – The Sound of a Voice
- Gustave Flaubert – The temptation of Saint Anthony
- Hans Werner Henze – L’Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe
