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Zolle (2005)
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A Cockroach's Tarantella and Zolle may be performed as an evening-length diptych.
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- Narrator, Female Voice, Tenor
- 55 min
- the composer
Programme Note
Audio
Listen to a recorded performance on WQXR's "Cued Up"
Composer note
In Zolle (It., big chunk of earth), a dead woman is a land-watcher. She wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked: an immigrant in death as in life. In her haunted travels between the worlds of life and the afterlife, she is unable to choose between the living and the dead, at loss to let go of either. Finally, with her sorrows, solitudes, and peacefulness, she lets go of both, turning into a part of the earth.
— Du Yun
Listen to a recorded performance on WQXR's "Cued Up"
Composer note
In Zolle (It., big chunk of earth), a dead woman is a land-watcher. She wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked: an immigrant in death as in life. In her haunted travels between the worlds of life and the afterlife, she is unable to choose between the living and the dead, at loss to let go of either. Finally, with her sorrows, solitudes, and peacefulness, she lets go of both, turning into a part of the earth.
— Du Yun
Scores
libretto and score
Reviews
More Info
- Du Yun's Dramas in April
- 11th April 2022
- Du Yun's dramatic works have new productions in Los Angeles and New York during April 2022: 'In Our Daughter's Eyes' and a diptych.