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- Søren Nils Eichberg
Oryx and Crake
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Commissioned by Das Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Unavailable for performance.
- 2222/4221/timp/perc/synth/pn/str
- soprano/mezz/alto/barithon/tenore/basso
- 1 hr 40 min
- Hannah Dübgen and Margaret Atwood
- 18th February 2023, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
- 1st March 2023, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
Programme Note
„Oryx and Crake“ tells the story of the only human survivor on Earth. In flash-backs, revealing only bit by bit, we must ourselves put together the pieces of the drama that lead to the apocalypse. The opera unfolds within 24 hours, beginning at dawn and finishing the next morning.
Atwood’s love-triangle offers plenty of classic music drama, her dystopia is painted in complex, industrial soundscapes and the post-armageddon solitude in contemporary-contemplative open spaces. Electronics extend and augment the orchestral colours and help achieving the unreal „haunted“ atmosphere and the different reality levels of the protagonist’s memory.
Features
- Margaret Atwood inspires
- Known for her powerful stories and her piercing depictions of the world, award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood has gone on to inspire the operatic world.
More Info
- World Premiere of Søren Nils Eichberg's opera based on Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
- 19th January 2023
- 18 February 2023 will see the long-waited premiere of Søren Eichberg’s new opera Oryx and Crake based on the novel by the great Canadian author, Margaret Atwood.