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The Ice Break
(Wenn das Eis bricht)
opera in three acts
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The Ice Break
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Splintered and rich in reference as Tippett’s operas are in their music and in their text, they carry at their heart a glowing confidence in the power of
human beings to find a centre and, from that centre, to sing. In The Ice Break that confidence has a global reach. The settings are anonymous: an airport
lounge, a hospital, the street. For the first time since The Midsummer Marriage, Tippett uses a chorus, here to represent the mass of humanity, whose divisions are pointed in the central cast: divisions between generations, between sexes, between races, between exile and native. Lev arrives in a new world to join his wife Nadia, who had emigrated with their baby son, Yuri. Also at the airport are Yuri’s girlfriend Gayle and her friend Hannah, there to meet the black ‘champion’, Olympion together with his fans. Out of a series of violent tensions, individual and collective, there develops a riot in which Olympion and Gayle are killed and Yuri is near-fatally wounded. Nadia dies peacefully. During an interlude in which a group attempts a psychadelic ‘trip’, the messenger, Astron, is mistaken for God – a claim he dismisses ironically. Yuri is operated on by Luke, a young doctor, and, released from the cracking plaster, he finds reconciliation with his father.
(Paul Griffiths)
Orchestral Cast
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Cast
Lev, a 50 year old teacher · bass - Nadia, his wife · lyric soprano - Yuri, their son · baritone - Gayle, Yuri's present native-born white girl friend · dramatic soprano - Hannah, Gayle's black friend · rich mezzo - Olympion, Hannah's boyfriend · tenor - Luke, a young intern at Hannah's hospital · tenor - Lieutenant · baritone - Astron, a psychedelic messenger · lyric mezzo and high tenor (or counter tenor) - chorus of various people (SATB)
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Title:
The Ice Break
(Wenn das Eis bricht)
opera in three acts
text by the composer
German translation by Ken W. Bartlett
Language:
German, English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
1973 - 1976
Duration:
70 ′
World Premiere:
July 7, 1977 · London (UK)
Royal Opera House
Heather Harper; Tom McDonnell; Josephine Barstow; Beverley Vaughan; Clyde Walker; John Shirley-Quirk; Roderick Kennedy; John Dobson; Anne Wilkens; James Bowman · Conductor: Sir Colin Davis · The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House · The Royal Opera
Original staging: Sam Wanamaker · Choreography: Sir Walter Raines
(scenic)
Royal Opera House
Heather Harper; Tom McDonnell; Josephine Barstow; Beverley Vaughan; Clyde Walker; John Shirley-Quirk; Roderick Kennedy; John Dobson; Anne Wilkens; James Bowman · Conductor: Sir Colin Davis · The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House · The Royal Opera
Original staging: Sam Wanamaker · Choreography: Sir Walter Raines
(scenic)
Commissioned work :
commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Series:
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Product number:
LSL 4036-01
Performances
The Ice Break
Conductor: Andrew Gourlay
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
April 9, 2015 |
Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , The B12 Warehouse
20:00
The Ice Break
Conductor: Andrew Gourlay
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
April 8, 2015 |
Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , The B12 Warehouse
20:00
The Ice Break
Conductor: Andrew Gourlay
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
April 7, 2015 |
Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , The B12 Warehouse
20:00
The Ice Break
Conductor: Andrew Gourlay
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
April 4, 2015 |
Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , The B12 Warehouse
20:00
The Ice Break
Conductor: Andrew Gourlay
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
April 3, 2015 |
Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , The B12 Warehouse — First Night
20:00
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