Half A Sixpence was originally produced by Harold Fielding and opened on March 21st 1963 at the Cambridge Theatre London where it ran for 677 performances. In the USA it was produced by Harold Fielding in association with Roger Stevens Allen-Hodgdon and Harry Rigby and opened on April 25th 1965 at the Broadhurst Theatre New York where it ran for 517 performances.

The Palace is an Opera in a prologue and three acts with music by Aulis Sallinen and libretto by Irene Dische and Hans Magnus Enzensberger. This work was commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival and was first performed in Olavinlinna Castle Finland on 26 July 1995. This libretto includes a Finnish translation.Duration: approx. 2 hours.

Einstein on the Beach was a seminal work of opera that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long. A collaborative creation between Glass and theatrical director Robert Wilson it was described by one critic as ‘a mixture of mathematical clarity and mystical allure’. The subject of the play is the life of Albert Einstein. The subject of this book is the complete libretto as well as a description ofthe creation of the work biographies discographies lists of works photographs and complete credits for the original work. For any admirer of Philip Glass Robert Wilson or modern opera this book is a necessity.Americancomposer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music withrepetitive structures.’ His operas including the renowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his ownperforming group The Philip Glass Ensemble.

American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘musicwith repetitive structures.’ His operas among them the renowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his ownperforming group The Philip Glass Ensemble. The Fall of the House of Usher was given its premiere in 1988.Writer and director Arthur Yorinks has worked in opera theatre dance film and radio as well as writing thirty-fivebooks for children. His goal is to create a new theatre of sound for the 21st century. Yorinks also collaborated with Glass on his opera The Juniper Tree. Both works have been performed internationally.

Par HARVEY JONATHAN. Andrew Porter says '. . . a stirring and beautiful adventure. . . He has written some of the most ardent love music since Messiaen's, and love music finds its place in the opera. . . There is also music of pain and despair. Bell sounds, chants, choruses, electronics, swelling harmonies, sharp-focus solo lines fill the theatre with deep, ever-changing ever-stirring music.' The Observer, 13 June 1993/ Répertoire / Livret

Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine Wendla is killed by abortion pills. The young Moritz terrorized by the world around him and especially by his teachers shoots himself.The ending seems likely to be the suicide of Moritz's friend Melchior but in a confrontation with a mysterious stranger (the famous Masked Man) he finally manages to shed his illusions and face the consequences.

La référence LV0208 de l'éditeur Billaudot dont l'auteur célèbre est Wagner Richard, qui a pour titre LE VAISSEAU FANTOME, a été écrite et composée pour Diverses Formations. Cette partition musicale appartient à la catégorie Livres, Revues, DVD, Logiciels Et Accessoires. / Livret

Libretto-After Sophocles' Trachiniae & Ovid's Metamorphoses Book IX set to music by George Frideric Handel.