CD96466 Adams The Death of Klinghoffer Bronnimann London 25 02 2012
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CD96466 Adams The Death of Klinghoffer Bronnimann London 25 02 2012
John
Adams
The
Death of Klinghoffer
Klinghoffer.....Alan Opie
(Baritone)
Captain.....Christopher Magiera (Baritone)
Marilyn
Klinghoffer.....Michaela Martens (Mezzo-Soprano)
Molqui.....Edwin
Vega (Tenor)
Rambo.....Sidney Outlaw (Baritone)
Mamoud.....Richard
Burkhard (Baritone)
Austrian Woman.....Kathryn Harries
(Soprano)
First Officer.....James Cleverton (Baritone)
Swiss
Grandmother.....Lucy Shaufer (Mezzo-Soprano)
Palestinian
Woman.....Clare Presland (Soprano)
British Dancing Girl.....Kate
Miller-Heidke (Singer)
Chorus and Orchestra of English National
Opera
Conductor.....Baldur Bronnimann
John Adams's The Death of
Klinghoffer
John Adams and his librettist Alice
Goodman always knew that using the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship
Achille Lauro as the basis for an opera would be a hot potato. But
quite how hot, even he couldn't have predicted. The controversy
surrounding 'The Death of Klinghoffer', with its grisly plot
including the murder of an elderly, disabled American Jew, has never
abated since its 1991 premiere in Brussels. It has taken over twenty
years for it to be staged in this country and this production,
directed by Tom Morris and recorded at English National Opera, is the
first at a British opera house. Andrew McGregor explores the opera's
themes and controversy with Penny Woolcock, who herself directed a
film of 'Klinghoffer'. And in the interval, former BBC Middle East
correspondent Tim Franks throws light on the political background of
the region in the mid-80s.
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File Mp3
Bitrate 320