Don Quixote
theatrical adventures
Music by Hans Zender (*1936)
Text by the composer based on Cervantes‘ novel of the same title
First performance: 1993, Stuttgart
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October 24, 2004, Komische Oper
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Don Quixote theatrical adventures Text by the composer based on Cervantes‘ novel of the same title First performance: 1993, Stuttgart
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Musical Director Don
Quichote, heroic baritone
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Rüdiger
Bohn Sabrina Hölzer Mirella Weingarten Tom
Sol Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin |
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After
the country squire had given himself the proud name Don Quijote de la
Mancha, and to his horse the name Rosinante, he realized that he now had
to look for a lady with whom he could fall in love, for a travelling
knight without love would be like a tree without leaves and fruit, a body
without a soul. And he named the lady of his heart Dulcinea de Toboso, and
to find her he audaciously rode out onto the open fields…“
Cervantes
Hans Zender, composer of numerous works of music theater, conductor and author of the legendary book „Happy New Ears“, by taking on the subject of the world famous novel „The life and deeds of the sagacious nobleman Don Quijote de la Mancha“ has chosen a genre which rarely enters contempo-rary opera literature: the comedy. With an orchestra of 19 instruments and 11 singers in 39 changing roles he gives the story of a knightly dream world a staging which seduces by its unusual concept: He fashions the story around the noble knight in five different levels of perception, namely singing, speech, instrument music, picture and acting. Thereby each one of the 31 adventures of the knight of dreams is experienced in a different combination of these elements. The diversity of this technique of scenic combination takes the listener away from the certainty of the traditional scenic experience and provides him with a new openness in observation. Coproduction with the Komische Oper Berlin – supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel |
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