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At night before a tower, a man and woman confront one another with their followers. After he orders her branded, she stabs him; when he recovers, he kills her and the others, then leaves through fire. The play emphasizes visual action and appearance over dialogue.
A one-act expressionist opera based on Oskar Kokoschka’s play of the same name and described as a mythic expression of a violent struggle between the sexes.
Krenek’s opera condenses Oskar Kokoschka’s expressionist, psychological treatment of the Orpheus myth. The source identifies the principal roles but gives no further plot synopsis.
At night before a tower, a man and woman confront one another with their followers. After he orders her branded, she stabs him; when he recovers, he kills her and the others, then leaves through fire. The play emphasizes visual action and appearance over dialogue.
A one-act expressionist opera based on Oskar Kokoschka’s play of the same name and described as a mythic expression of a violent struggle between the sexes.
Krenek’s opera condenses Oskar Kokoschka’s expressionist, psychological treatment of the Orpheus myth. The source identifies the principal roles but gives no further plot synopsis.