Includes the opera Heart chamber and the feature film I did not rehearse to say I love you by Uli Aumüller, providing an account of the opera's composition and production. Title from container. Commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Wide screen (16:9). Includes a conversation with the composer by Dorothea Hartmann and notes on the feature film in German with English translation (23 pages : portraits) inserted in container. Patrizia Ciofi (She) ; Noa Frenkel (Her internal voice) ; Dietrich Henschel (He) ; Terry Wey (His internal voice) ; Frauke Aulbert (The voice) ; Uli Fussenegger (The double bass player) ; Ensemble Nikel ; vocal ensemble ; Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ; Johannes Kalitzke, conductor. Recorded 2019 November 13, 26 and 30 Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Contents:
Heart chamber : an inquiry about love / Chaya Czernowin (1:27:00) -- I did not rehearse to say I love you / Uli Aumüller (1:26:00).
Summary:
The works of award-winning composer Chaya Czernowin have been performed worldwide at significant new music festivals and prestigious venues, and she is the first woman to be appointed composition professor at Harvard University. Commissioned by Deutsche Oper Berlin and widely acclaimed in the critical press, ?Heart Chamber? uses voice and stage as internalized sonic and visual landscapes to create a genuine multi-sensory musical experience. With only two characters and a hint of a narrative, this is a grand opera on the smallest of transformations, focusing on the intense beauty and vulnerabilities of falling in love. ?It is seldom that audiences at the Deutsche Oper Berlin have listened with such rapture to a new commission? (Online Merker).
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