Archive listings for Mavra/Pierrot Lunaire (2022)

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

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Mavra: performed in Russian with English surtitles. Pierrot Lunaire: performed in German with English surtitlesCompany The Royal Opera. Music Igor Stravinsky (Mavra). Music Paul Phillips (orchestation - Mavra). Lyrics Boris Yevgen'Yevich Kochino (Mavra). Director Anthony Almeida (Mavra). Design Rosanna Vize (Mavra). Music Arnold Schoenberg (Pierrot Lunaire). Lyrics Albert Giraud (text - Pierrot Lunaire). Director Anthony Almeida (Pierrot Lunaire). Design Rosanna Vize (Pierrot Lunaire).

12 May 22 to 22 May 22

Royal Opera House, West End :: V377
listing details L01102007841

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As part of their 20th anniversary celebrations, the Jette Parker Young Artists present a mixed programme in the Linbury Theatre, bringing together Igor Stravinsky's rarely performed Mavra, 100 years after its 1922 premiere, and Arnold Schoenberg's 1912 melodrama Pierrot Lunaire. Stravinsky's one-act opera is based on a narrative poem by Pushkin, in which a Hussar disguises himself as a cook in an attempt to spend more time with his lover. Schoenberg's formally wide-ranging, atonal score for Pierrot Lunaire, pre-dating the 12-tone technique for which he is celebrated, transforms into Sprechstimme the texts of poems by Albert Giraud on subjects ranging from love, sex and religion to violence, crime and blasphemy.

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