SKU: BT.MUSM570362127

English.

Luis Tinoco (Composer) and Stephen Plaice (Libretto) wrote 'Paint Me', and Opera for six singers and Chamber Orchestra. Rui Horta and Joana Carneiro are responsible for the stage direction and the musical direction. My idea in writing Paint Me was to bring together six characters, all of whom have a prolific imaginative interior life, and to explore what they would make of each other in the confines of a railway compartment. The model for my libretto is Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The travellers in Paint Me are also on their way to Canterbury, but they are strangers thrown together by the randomness of modern travel. Their tales are not told publicly, but in theirown imaginations. Most journeys in the modern age are anonymous and conducted in silence. We have only a visual or perhaps manneristic impression of the people sitting opposite us. This introspection in public opens up a private fantasy space, in which our fellow travellers can become the characters in instant psychological dramatisations.I wanted to formalize each character’s fantasy into a full narrative. The result is a kind of anthology of operatic short stories, surrounded by the framework of an ordinary journey.     - Stephen Plaice.

SKU: HL.14018078

Danish.

Kniven (The Knife ) - A Chamber Opera in 1 Act (1959) by Vagn Holmobe . Danish version. Libretto by the composer. Piano Reduction - English version : WH30944C Full Score: WH30944

Kniven (The Knife) - A Chamber Opera in 1 Act (1959) by Vagn Holmobe. Danish version.

Libretto by the composer.

Piano Reduction - English version : WH30944C

Full Score: WH30944

SKU: PR.UE035864

ISBN 9783702474256. UPC: 803452071365.

Universal Edition presents very special full scores of Leoš Janáček works. These new Critical Edition scores are based upon the work of Janáček expert Jiří Zahrádka. Jenufa was Janáček's third opera (1904), and his breakthrough work in that genre. Katya Kabanova, The Cunning Little Vixen, and The Makropulos Affair are three of his last four operas, composed between 1921 and 1926. Janáček joins Dvořák and Smetana among the best of the Czech composers. Each score measures a full 10 x 13 1/2, hardbound.

SKU: HL.14004129

ISBN 9780711992139.

This Swedish Folk Tale, reminiscent of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, explores new and intriguing instrumental and vocal textures, yet is always poetic, lyrical and accessible, with a fairy tale quality that assures it a universal appeal.

SKU: BT.ERBA-8145