Workinfo AshenMOON | helmutoehring

opera using music Henry Purcells (audiovisual concert ad. lib.)

with texts by William Shakespeare + Adalbert Stifter + Heinrich Heine + Helmut Oehring

for a deaf sign soloist + instrumental vocal duo: accordion / voice + guitars / voice (trio ad. lib. double bass / voice + e-guitar / voice + guitars / voice) )

+ five vocal soloists: soprano (also signs) + mezzo soprano (also signs) + countertenor + tenor + bassbariton + mixed choir + orchestra + baroque ensemble

+ preproduced audio play + live electronics

Prologue: TurningSUN
I Superposition (Summer)
Blackbox: Eklipse 1
II Overcoverage (Autumn)
Blackbox: Eklipse 2
III Extinction (Winter)
Epilogue: AshenMOON

commissioned work for the Stiftung Oper Berlin and the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

idea + composition + SignMimoChoreography: Helmut Oehring

conception + work dramaturgy + libretto: Stefanie Wördemann

sound conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH s.m.p.

M U S I C s o u r c e s

Henry Purcell: songs for voices + basso continuo from the masque / semi opera The Fairy Queen on Thomas Betterton's adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream
Henry Purcell: Music for a While for voices + Basso continuo on an instrumental music for the play Oedipus by John Dryden + Nathaniel Lee
Henry Purcell: Sweeter than roses for voices + basso continuo from the music for the play Pausanius
Henry Purcell: I love and I must for voices + basso continuo from the semi opera The Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian on a libretto by Thomas Betterton
Henry Purcell: songs for voices + basso continuo from the music for the play Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

T E X T s o u r c e s

William Shakespeare: A Midsummernight’s Dream, original – German + sign adaptations by Stefanie Wördemann + Helmut Oehring
William Shakespeare: Sonnetts, original – German + sign adaptations by Stefanie Wördemann + Helmut Oehring
William Shakespeare: King Lear, original – German + sign adaptations by Stefanie Wördemann + Helmut Oehring

Heinrich Heine: Sonnenuntergang / Sunset (from: Die Nordsee / The North Sea First Cycle, III)

Adalbert Stifter: Die Sonnernfinsternis am 8. Juli 1842 / The solar Eclipse on 8 July 1842

Volksweise/Anonymus: Wo ist mein Freund?

W O R L D p r e m i e r e

16 June 2013 at Staatsoper im Schillertheater Berlin
musical direction Staatskapelle: Michael Boder / Johannes Kalitzke

musical direction Acadeym for Old Music: Benjamin Bayl
direction State Opera Choir: Eberhard Friedrich
direction: Claus Guth
stage + costumes: Christian Schmidt

Staatskapelle Berlin
Academy for Old Music Berlin
State Opera Choir Berlin
instrumental soloist's trio: Matthias Bauer / double bass + Jörg Wilkendorf / e-guitar + Daniel Göritz / guitars
deaf sign soloist: Christina Schönfeld
Vocal soloists: Bejun Mehta + Marlis Petersen + Tanja Baumgartner + Topi Lehtipuu + Roman Trekel + Ulrich Matthes

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