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Opera Without Words

for orchestra
orchestra
Edition: Performance material

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Opera Without Words is a music drama about some of the fascinating people I have known. In beginning to compose this work, I found myself reviewing the differences and similarities between a concerto for an orchestra and an opera. As a result, I approached this new orchestral work as I would an opera; I hired a librettist, Irene Dische, and set her words not to voices but to musical instruments, unfettered by considerations of vocal range and technique. When I finished the opera with words, I removed the text, leaving but a few traces and artifacts of the deleted libretto in the score. Tobias Picker

Orchestral Cast

3(3pic).3(3.ca).3(3.bcl).3(3.cbsn)-4.3.2.1-timp.2perc-hp.pno-str

Content

I The Beloved
II The Minstrel
III The Idol
IV The Gladiator
V The Farewell

More Information

Title:
Opera Without Words
for orchestra
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Helicon Music Corporation
Year of composition:
2015
Duration:
25 ′
World Premiere:
March 10, 2016 · Washington, DC (USA)
The Kennedy Center, Concert Hall
Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach · National Symphony Orchestra

Commissioned work :
Co-Commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, DC, Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director, through a grant from the John and June Hechinger Commissioning Fund for New Orchestral Works, and by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director

Technical Details

Product number:
LSHM 50329
Delivery rights:
Worldwide

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Performances

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  • Opera Without Words
    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony
    October 28, 2017 | Nashville, TN (United States of America) , Schermerhorn Symphony Center
  • Opera Without Words
    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony
    October 27, 2017 | Nashville, TN (United States of America) , Schermerhorn Symphony Center
  • Opera Without Words
    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony
    October 27, 2017 | Nashville, TN (United States of America) , Schermerhorn Symphony Center
  • Opera Without Words
    Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach
    Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra
    March 12, 2016 | Washington, DC (United States of America) , The Kennedy Center, Concert Hall
  • Opera Without Words
    Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach
    Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra
    March 11, 2016 | Washington, DC (United States of America) , The Kennedy Center, Concert Hall
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