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In eight songs, George III delivers an increasingly fractured soliloquy, recalling his kingdom and personal world through varied musical scenes. The performance climaxes when he seizes and smashes a violin.
The opera interweaves three stories of student activism: James Meredith’s struggle to enter the University of Mississippi, the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany, and Chinese students pressured to denounce their parents during the Cultural Revolution. The narratives converge at the end.
In the final seconds before Mr Emmet dies by suicide on a railway line, thoughts, memories, ideas, and musical fragments pass through his mind over the work’s fifty-minute span.
A mute child is subjected to pressure from his family, authority figures and television advertisements until his head explodes. Surgeons then attempt to reconstruct him and reshape his social, religious and sexual attitudes. When the Antichrist appears and the child is resurrected, he turns against the surgeons.
Taverner is tried for heresy and pardoned by the Cardinal, but Death later prevails in a symbolic battle for his soul. After the Reformation, Taverner becomes an agent of royal religious policy and oversees the trial and execution of the White Abbot.
In a totalitarian future, the Doctor tells a child the legend of a shepherd whose wife returned to a lake after he struck her three times, leaving healing powers to his descendants. A spreading disease afflicts anyone struck in the rain. The Doctor warns the Ruler, who suppresses the story; during a confrontation in the rain, the Doctor strikes and infects him. The Ruler seeks a cure at the lake, but the Doctor refuses. The sick crowd tramples the Doctor to death, and the Child orders the Ruler into the lake before becoming the new Doctor of Myddfai.
Three lighthouse keepers recount the mysterious disappearance of the men they relieved, then reveal their own mounting tensions and visions during a fogbound night. Their stories of violence, desire and religious fervor culminate in a confrontation with a vision before the relief ship arrives and they agree on an account.
The opera follows Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney, who became a Christian saint and martyr. Its nine scenes proceed from the Battle of Menai Strait and Magnus’s temptations through a peace parley, his journey to Egilsay, Hakon’s murder plot, the sacrifice, and a miracle.
In eight songs, George III delivers an increasingly fractured soliloquy, recalling his kingdom and personal world through varied musical scenes. The performance climaxes when he seizes and smashes a violin.
The opera interweaves three stories of student activism: James Meredith’s struggle to enter the University of Mississippi, the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany, and Chinese students pressured to denounce their parents during the Cultural Revolution. The narratives converge at the end.
In the final seconds before Mr Emmet dies by suicide on a railway line, thoughts, memories, ideas, and musical fragments pass through his mind over the work’s fifty-minute span.
A mute child is subjected to pressure from his family, authority figures and television advertisements until his head explodes. Surgeons then attempt to reconstruct him and reshape his social, religious and sexual attitudes. When the Antichrist appears and the child is resurrected, he turns against the surgeons.
Taverner is tried for heresy and pardoned by the Cardinal, but Death later prevails in a symbolic battle for his soul. After the Reformation, Taverner becomes an agent of royal religious policy and oversees the trial and execution of the White Abbot.
In a totalitarian future, the Doctor tells a child the legend of a shepherd whose wife returned to a lake after he struck her three times, leaving healing powers to his descendants. A spreading disease afflicts anyone struck in the rain. The Doctor warns the Ruler, who suppresses the story; during a confrontation in the rain, the Doctor strikes and infects him. The Ruler seeks a cure at the lake, but the Doctor refuses. The sick crowd tramples the Doctor to death, and the Child orders the Ruler into the lake before becoming the new Doctor of Myddfai.
Three lighthouse keepers recount the mysterious disappearance of the men they relieved, then reveal their own mounting tensions and visions during a fogbound night. Their stories of violence, desire and religious fervor culminate in a confrontation with a vision before the relief ship arrives and they agree on an account.
The opera follows Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney, who became a Christian saint and martyr. Its nine scenes proceed from the Battle of Menai Strait and Magnus’s temptations through a peace parley, his journey to Egilsay, Hakon’s murder plot, the sacrifice, and a miracle.