Leírás
Opera, dupla CD kiadvány, 2016.
LA MONNAIE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA at ROYAL OPERA HOUSE.
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 and Gabriel Crozier
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Music Direction: Koen Kessels
Commissioned by La Monnaie – De Munt.
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