Leírás
Opera, 2CD 2016.
Whether you call it shell shock or post-traumatic stress disorder, war creates serious psychological wounds. A hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War. Belgian composer Nicolas Lens and Australian author and musician Nick Cave have written a new opera on this theme.
In twelve poems or canti, they evoke the anonymous protagonist of the war in a highly personal and fluent style: soldiers, mothers, orphans,
prisoners… etc.
The testimonies of these individual characters, with whom everyone can identify, make the universal call for a
more humane and peaceful world.
Music by Nicholas Lens.
Lyrics by Nick Cave.
Mezzo-Soprano: Sara Fulgoni.
Coloratura Soprano: Claron McFadden
Counter Tenor: Gerald Thompson
Tenor: Ed Lyon
Bass-Bariton: Mark S. Doss
Boy Sopranos: Gabriel Kuti, Theo Lally, Gabriel Crozier
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Music Direction: Koen Kessels
Commissioned by La Monnaie – De Munt
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