The history of twentieth-century opera. 2018B.
2018: today, two formidable operas: the most recent opera of Kurtág and the first opera of the young American Ellen Reid about the psychological consequences of sexual assault.
In this episode, fragments from:
György Kurtág- Fin de Partie
Ellen Reid (image). Prism.
Other opera and operetta productions from 2018:
Bjork, Himmelfahrt scores- Vespertine
Gustavo Diaz-Jerez- La casa imaginaria
Huang Ruo- An American Soldier
Mark-Antony Turnage- Coralina
Ivan Acher- Sternenhoch
Rufus Wainwright- Hadrian
Klaus Lang- Der verschwundene Hochzeiter
Johannes Maria Staud – Die Weiden
Thomas Larcher- Das Jagdgewehr
George Benjamin- Lessons in Love and Violence
David Sawer- The Skating Rink
Bujor Hoinic- Troy
Giorgi Battistelli- Wake
Toshio Hosokawa- Erdbeben
Tarik O’Regan- The Phoenix