Johannes Maria Staud (*1974) Die Weiden (The Willows)
Opera [solos,mix ch,orch] 2016-2022 Duration: 135' Text: Durs Grünbein
Choir: SATB – 3(A-fl/Picc.B-fl).3(cor ang.musette).3(bassetthn.db-clar).S-sax.T-sax.2.dbl bsn – 4.3.3.1 – timp.perc(4) – hp – pno.xel - str: 14.12.10.8.6 – BM: clar – trp.bsn – perc– harm – vl.va.db – live-electronics
World premiere: Vienna/Austria, Staatsoper, December 8, 2018
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Opera in six parts, four passages, one prolog, one prelude, one interlude and an epilogue
Choir: SATB (at least 48 voices, max. divisia 8)
Characters: LEA, a young philosopher (Mezzosoprano) – PETER, a young artist (Baritone) – EDGAR, Peter's old school friend (Tenor) – KITTY, Edgar's lover (Soprano) – KRACHMEYER, composer, friend of Peter's familie (actor) – THE TV REPORTER (actress) – LEA'S MOTHER (Mezzosoprano) – LEA'S FATHER (Tenor) – PETER'S MOTHER (Alt) – PETER'S FATHER (Bass) – THE DEMAGOGIE (Bassbaritone) – FRITZI and FRANTZI, Peter's sistors, twins (high Sopranos) – THE WARNER ON THE SHORE (Tenor) – THE REFUGEE (mute part) – THE UPPER RANGER (Bassbaritone) – A WALKING WATER CORPSE (actress)
The opera Die Weiden is a journey 'into the heart of darkness' along a great river in Central Europe today, which, if you will, can undoubtedly be identified as the Danube. The story oscillates between a travel journey of two lovers who fall in and out of love and, a surreal distorted observation of today's current threatening developments.
Keywords: the Angry Citizen, the Vigilante, the increasing isolation from the outside and the brutalization of the social center - all this despite our heavily burdened history. This is achieved through pandemonium-like hallucinations of one of the protagonists as well as through the transformation motif man-to-fish.
(Johannes Maria Staud)
