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- Stewart Copeland
The Invention of Morel (2017)
- Palmyra Music (World)
Based on 'La invención de Morel' by Adolfo Bioy Casares
- 1.0.1(bcl)+bcl.1/0.1.1+btbn.0/2perc/pf.egtr/str(1.1.1.1.amplified db); sound effects
- 2S, Mz, 2T, 2Bar, B
- 1 hr 24 min
- Jonathan Moore and the composer
- English
Programme Note
Libretto: Jonathan Moore and the composer
Cast List:
NARRATOR (tells the tale): Baritone
FUGITIVE (acts out the tale): Baritone
FAUSTINE (mystery woman): Lyric Soprano
MOREL (dashing invertor): Tenor
STOEVER (challenging guest): Bass
DORA (radiant diva): Soprano
DUCHESS (grumpy duchess): Mezzo-soprano
ALEC (arrogant architect) / OMBRELLIERI (Italian
rug merchant): Tenor
Synopsis:
A fugitive from justice has found refuge on a remote island. There is rumor of a strange disease connected to this deserted place. Suddenly a group of exotic tourists arrive. He fears arrest but falls in love with one of the intruders. To meet her would be to risk everything but his heart drags him to her. She ignores him completely! Soon he is barging in on the tourists' strangely anachronistic party, wailing for attention. Why won't she acknowledge him, why won't they arrest him? What are those machines in the basement? And why does she keep repeating the same conversation with that Morel? A charismatically odd man, made even stranger by his isolation, solving a cosmic mystery while maddened by love is the sort of fantastic romance that opera serves so well.
Scores:
Act 1
Acts 2 and 3
Cast List:
NARRATOR (tells the tale): Baritone
FUGITIVE (acts out the tale): Baritone
FAUSTINE (mystery woman): Lyric Soprano
MOREL (dashing invertor): Tenor
STOEVER (challenging guest): Bass
DORA (radiant diva): Soprano
DUCHESS (grumpy duchess): Mezzo-soprano
ALEC (arrogant architect) / OMBRELLIERI (Italian
rug merchant): Tenor
Synopsis:
A fugitive from justice has found refuge on a remote island. There is rumor of a strange disease connected to this deserted place. Suddenly a group of exotic tourists arrive. He fears arrest but falls in love with one of the intruders. To meet her would be to risk everything but his heart drags him to her. She ignores him completely! Soon he is barging in on the tourists' strangely anachronistic party, wailing for attention. Why won't she acknowledge him, why won't they arrest him? What are those machines in the basement? And why does she keep repeating the same conversation with that Morel? A charismatically odd man, made even stranger by his isolation, solving a cosmic mystery while maddened by love is the sort of fantastic romance that opera serves so well.
Scores:
Act 1
Acts 2 and 3
Media
Chicago Opera Theater trailer
Scores
Reviews
Although classical in style, the twitchy rhythms, percussion-driven ostinatos and pile-driving licks of electric guitar of Copeland's orchestral writing prove you can't keep an old rocker down. His jabbing staccati mirror the thrumming of Morel's sinister machines, effectively undergirding the vocal writing. It's by far his best work in the classical genre to date.
19th February 2017
