Orchestra Voice
SKU:
AP.12-057154309X
Composed by George
Benjamin and Martin
Crimp. This edition:
Limited. Full Orchestra;
Larger Works; Performance
Music Ensemble. Form:
Opera. Living Composer.
Book; Score. 112 pages.
Faber Music
#12-057154309X. Published
by Faber Music
(AP.12-057154309X).
ISBN 9780571543090.
English.
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Day Like This is the
fourth operatic
collaboration between
George Benjamin and
Martin Crimp, whose
acclaimed partnership
produced Written on Skin,
Lessons in Love and
Violence, and Into the
Little Hill. This limited
edition of the full score
is one of only 150,
presented in a
cloth-bound hard cover.
It is signed by George
Benjamin and Martin Crimp
and includes facsimile
reproductions of pages
from the manuscript,
sketches by Benjamin and
Crimp, and a photograph
of Benjamin, Crimp, and
directors Daniel
Jeanneteau and
Marie-Christine Soma in
rehearsal at the
Aix-en-Provence Festival.
In this
bittersweet fable of
grief and renewal.
Benjamin and Crimp tell
the story of a woman who
has lost her child: if,
before nightfall, she
meets one truly happy
person and cuts a button
from their sleeve, her
child will live again. In
her search she meets a
pair of lovers, a
composer and their
assistant, an artisan,
collector, and, in a
beautiful garden, the
mysterious Zabelle.
Benjamin proves
with this taut, sharp
miniature that he is the
finest opera composer of
todayâ¦a work of
depth of feeling,
humanistic artistry, and
expressive rigorâ¦a
drama that is
miraculously condensed.
-- Süddeutsche
Zeitung (Reinhard J.
Brembeck) 9 July
2023.
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