Vocal
SKU:
HL.49002726
Vocal
Score. Composed by
Sir Michael Tippett. This
edition: Paperback/Soft
Cover. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical, Opera. Piano
reduction. Composed
1973-1976. 358 pages.
Duration 70'. Schott
Music #ED 11253.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49002726).
ISBN
9781495076602. UPC:
073999930863.
8.75x11.5x1.128 inches.
English -
German.
Splintered
and rich in reference as
Tippett's operas are in
their music and in their
text, they carry at their
heart a glowing
confidence in the power
ofhuman beings to find a
centre and, from that
centre, to sing. In The
Ice Break that confidence
has a global reach. The
settings are anonymous:
an airportlounge, a
hospital, the street. For
the first time since The
Midsummer Marriage,
Tippett uses a chorus,
here to represent the
mass of humanity, whose
divisions are pointed in
the central cast:
divisions between
generations, between
sexes, between races,
between exile and native.
Lev arrives in a new
world to join his wife
Nadia, who had emigrated
with their baby son,
Yuri. Also at the airport
are Yuri's girlfriend
Gayle and her friend
Hannah, there to meet the
black 'champion',
Olympion together with
his fans. Out of a series
of violent tensions,
individual and
collective, there
develops a riot in which
Olympion and Gayle are
killed and Yuri is
near-fatally wounded.
Nadia dies peacefully.
During an interlude in
which a group attempts a
psychadelic 'trip', the
messenger, Astron, is
mistaken for God - a
claim he dismisses
ironically. Yuri is
operated on by Luke, a
young doctor, and,
released from the
cracking plaster, he
finds reconciliation with
his father.(Paul
Griffiths)
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