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The opera tells of Alice Arden and her lover Mosbie murdering her husband, Thomas Arden. Erich Fried’s German libretto draws on a chronicle and the anonymous play Arden of Faversham; Geoffrey Skelton prepared an English version.
Eight-scene opera by Alexander Goehr setting most of Ottavio Rinuccini’s libretto for Monteverdi’s lost L’Arianna, based on the classical story of Ariadne and Theseus. Goehr preserves Monteverdi’s surviving lament and intersperses it with choral episodes.
Set in Münster in 1543, this opera focuses on the Anabaptists Jan Matthys and John of Leiden as they attempt to transform the town into a “City of God” in anticipation of the Second Coming. The people of Münster form a central musical protagonist. The German-language premiere was abridged; the complete English version was later broadcast by the BBC.
The three parts are Kantan, Damask Drum and (Un)fair Exchange. The first two draw on Japanese Noh plays and the third on a kyogen folk play. No plot details are provided.
The opera tells of Alice Arden and her lover Mosbie murdering her husband, Thomas Arden. Erich Fried’s German libretto draws on a chronicle and the anonymous play Arden of Faversham; Geoffrey Skelton prepared an English version.
Eight-scene opera by Alexander Goehr setting most of Ottavio Rinuccini’s libretto for Monteverdi’s lost L’Arianna, based on the classical story of Ariadne and Theseus. Goehr preserves Monteverdi’s surviving lament and intersperses it with choral episodes.
Set in Münster in 1543, this opera focuses on the Anabaptists Jan Matthys and John of Leiden as they attempt to transform the town into a “City of God” in anticipation of the Second Coming. The people of Münster form a central musical protagonist. The German-language premiere was abridged; the complete English version was later broadcast by the BBC.
The three parts are Kantan, Damask Drum and (Un)fair Exchange. The first two draw on Japanese Noh plays and the third on a kyogen folk play. No plot details are provided.