The Wake World | |
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Opera by David Hertzberg | |
Language | English |
Based on | The Wake World by Aleister Crowley |
Premiere | 18 September 2017 |
The Wake World is an opera with music and libretto by David Hertzberg. It premiered September 18, 2017, at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. [1] [2] The Wake World was a co-presentation of Opera Philadelphia and the Barnes Foundation, directed by R. B. Schlather and conducted by Elizabeth Braden. [1] [2] The opera is based on the story "The Wake World" by Aleister Crowley. [1] The opera's debut recording was released April 24, 2020 on Tzadik Records. [3]
"The whole evening felt celebratory", Opera News wrote of The Wake World. [1] The New York Times called the music engrossing. "Just five instrumentalists produce wondrous colors and sonorities. The score, spiked with modernist elements, makes Mr. Hertzberg seem a 21st-century Ravel", wrote Anthony Tommasini. [4]
"The prose was purple, and so was the music, so thoroughly an antique musical language that it sounded like a half-remembered dream", wrote Peter Dobrin in The Philadelphia Inquirer. [5]
In 2018, The Wake World was awarded the Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera. [6]
The New York Times listed the track "Is that you, my love?" from the opera's debut recording among 'The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020'. [7]
Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 18 September 2017 Conductor: Elizabeth Braden [2] |
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Lola | soprano | Maeve Höglund |
The Fairy Prince | mezzo-soprano | Rihab Chaieb |
Parthenope | soprano | Rebecca Myers |
Ligeia | soprano | Veronica Chapman-Smith |
Leucosia | mezzo-soprano | Joanna Gates |
Luna/Hecate | soprano | Jessica Beebe |
Morbus | tenor | George Ross Somerville |
Pestilitas | bass | John David Miles |
Giant/Bone Man/Man in the Azure Coat/Man of the Blue House | bass | James Osby Gwathney, Jr. |
The Wake World | |
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Opera by David Hertzberg | |
Language | English |
Based on | The Wake World by Aleister Crowley |
Premiere | 18 September 2017 |
The Wake World is an opera with music and libretto by David Hertzberg. It premiered September 18, 2017, at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. [1] [2] The Wake World was a co-presentation of Opera Philadelphia and the Barnes Foundation, directed by R. B. Schlather and conducted by Elizabeth Braden. [1] [2] The opera is based on the story "The Wake World" by Aleister Crowley. [1] The opera's debut recording was released April 24, 2020 on Tzadik Records. [3]
"The whole evening felt celebratory", Opera News wrote of The Wake World. [1] The New York Times called the music engrossing. "Just five instrumentalists produce wondrous colors and sonorities. The score, spiked with modernist elements, makes Mr. Hertzberg seem a 21st-century Ravel", wrote Anthony Tommasini. [4]
"The prose was purple, and so was the music, so thoroughly an antique musical language that it sounded like a half-remembered dream", wrote Peter Dobrin in The Philadelphia Inquirer. [5]
In 2018, The Wake World was awarded the Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera. [6]
The New York Times listed the track "Is that you, my love?" from the opera's debut recording among 'The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020'. [7]
Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 18 September 2017 Conductor: Elizabeth Braden [2] |
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Lola | soprano | Maeve Höglund |
The Fairy Prince | mezzo-soprano | Rihab Chaieb |
Parthenope | soprano | Rebecca Myers |
Ligeia | soprano | Veronica Chapman-Smith |
Leucosia | mezzo-soprano | Joanna Gates |
Luna/Hecate | soprano | Jessica Beebe |
Morbus | tenor | George Ross Somerville |
Pestilitas | bass | John David Miles |
Giant/Bone Man/Man in the Azure Coat/Man of the Blue House | bass | James Osby Gwathney, Jr. |