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]]> The Icelandic singer/composer Björk released her concept album Vespertine in 2001. Raymond Bisha introduces a new audio recording of an opera that was born of that release. The inherent theatricality of Björk’s original was the inspiration for an expert creative team to effect the transition from studio to stage, from sound tracks to symphonic support. Scored for four soloists and two choirs, and with all the original electronic sounds re-imagined on an array of acoustic instruments, Vespertine the opera is a stunning new creation, not merely an adaptation.

   

View album details of DVOŘÁK, J. / HÄUBLEIN, P. / VINUESA, R.: Vespertine [Opera] (after Björk’s album, 2018) at Naxos.com
Catalogue No.: OC978

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]]> https://blog.naxos.com/2019/04/26/podcast-from-soundtrack-to-centre-stage-bjrks-vespertine/feed/ 0 The Icelandic singer/composer Björk released her concept album Vespertine in 2001. Raymond Bisha introduces a new audio recording of an opera that was born of that release. The inherent theatricality of Björk’s original was the inspiration for an exper... The Icelandic singer/composer Björk released her concept album Vespertine in 2001. Raymond Bisha introduces a new audio recording of an opera that was born of that release. The inherent theatricality of Björk’s original was the inspiration for an expert creative team to effect the transition from studio to stage, from sound tracks to symphonic support. Read More ... Opera Archives - The Naxos Blog full false 19:56 5439 Podcast: Sister Carrie. The opera of the novel. https://blog.naxos.com/2017/09/15/podcast-sister-carrie-the-opera-of-the-novel/ https://blog.naxos.com/2017/09/15/podcast-sister-carrie-the-opera-of-the-novel/#respond Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:00:33 +0000 http://blog.naxos.com/?p=3111 Sister Carrie, an opera by American composer Robert Aldridge, was first performed in 2012. Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, the novel on which the opera was based, was written in 1900. It was one of the first American novels about social status which, for women around the turn of the 20th century, depended almost entirely on Read More ...

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]]> Sister Carrie, an opera by American composer Robert Aldridge, was first performed in 2012. Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, the novel on which the opera was based, was written in 1900. It was one of the first American novels about social status which, for women around the turn of the 20th century, depended almost entirely on men. Marriage and motherhood were for the majority the only life options. For many today, such observations still carry varying degrees of resonance. Aldridge’s powerful music charges up the themes of social standing and the lure of money; a small-town girl’s tortuous path to fame and her lover’s abject descent into despair. Raymond Bisha introduces the work.

View album details of Aldrige’s Sister Carrie at Naxos.com
Catalogue No.: 8.669039-40

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]]> https://blog.naxos.com/2017/09/15/podcast-sister-carrie-the-opera-of-the-novel/feed/ 0 Sister Carrie, an opera by American composer Robert Aldridge, was first performed in 2012. Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, the novel on which the opera was based, was written in 1900. It was one of the first American novels about social status which,... Sister Carrie, an opera by American composer Robert Aldridge, was first performed in 2012. Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, the novel on which the opera was based, was written in 1900. It was one of the first American novels about social status which, for women around the turn of the 20th century, depended almost entirely on Read More ... Opera Archives - The Naxos Blog full false 20:00 3111