Name: Brokeback Mountain
Start: 2014-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-02-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Real

Organization

Cantante

Tenore

Tom Randle

Jack Twist

Basso-baritono

Daniel Okulitch

Ennis del Mar

Soprano

Heather Buck

Alma Beers

Mezzosoprano

Hannah Esther Minutillo

Lureen

Basso

Ethan Herschenfeld

Aguirre

Hogboy

Contralto

Jane Henschel

Mrs Twist

Ryan MacPherson

John Twist Sr

Letitia Singleton

Saleswoman

Celia Alcedo

Mrs Beers

Direzione d'orchestra

Titus Engel

Regia

Ivo van Hove

Costumi

Wojciech Dziedzic

Scenografia

Jan Versweyveld

Teatro Real de Madrid

Brokeback Mountain -  (Il Segreto di Brokeback Mountain)

Madrid

Spagna

Teatro Real

Brokeback Mountain is an opera by American composer Charles Wuorinen, with a libretto in English by Annie Proulx, based on her 1997 short story "Brokeback Mountain". They began work on it in 2008 under a commission by Gerard Mortier of the New York City Opera. He took the project with him to the Teatro Real of Madrid, where the opera was premiered on January 28, 2014.

There are many parallels to be found between this work, which will have it's world première at the Teatro Real, and Tristan und Isolde. Just as in the opera by Richard Wagner, we are presented with a love on a cosmic scale, and one that is rejected by society. It is a love story set in a stunning landscape of mountains, only to be destroyed by society's expectations, just as in Wagner's opera. Annie Proulx, the author of the book of the same name, wrote the libretto so that the music by Charles Wuorinen could transcend the message of the film. Wuorinen himself states that nature in the opera is, "a constantly menacing, deadly force."

A world premiere at the Teatro Real de Madrid: Brokeback Mountain, Charles Wuorinen's new opera, composed after Annie Proulx's novel and Ang Lee's multi Oscar winning movie.

One of the highlights of the 2014 operatic season, Brokeback Mountain is a new opera composed by Charles Wuorinen after the original short story of Annie Proulx. First published in the New Yorker in 1997, then in the collection of Wyoming stories, Close Range, the story of Brokeback Mountain is well-known worldwide thanks to the Academy Award-winning film adaptation made by Ang Lee in 2005, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.

The American composer Charles Wuorinen, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur grant, came up with the idea of composing an opera after watching the film version of Brokeback Mountain. "I knew there was operatic material at hand," he explained. Gérard Mortier, the director of the Teatro Real Madrid, commissioned this new opera. The libretto was written by Annie Proulx herself.

"Annie Proulx and I, explains Charles Wuorinen, began consultation on the work in 2008 with a week spent at the excellent Ucross Foundation (an artists' retreat) near Sheridan, Wyoming. There I had the chance to go into the mountains that provided the model for Brokeback, and to hold several conversations with Annie Proulx. The result of this and many subsequent exchanges was a splendidly concise and apposite libretto, in which Proulx, through her characteristically laconic style, conveys character and scene with great efficiency. An essential property of any libretto which aspires to project drama is this kind of efficiency, since sung language greatly slows the delivery of words. I consider myself very lucky to have been given such an excellent exemplar."

Following Haroun and the Sea of Stories premiered in 2004 at New York City Opera, Brokeback Mountain is Wuorinen's second opera. The cast stars Daniel Okulitch and Tom Randle in the roles of Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, the two characters struggling with their social environment. Ivo van Hove, general director of the Toneelgroep in Amsterdam, is the stage director of this world premiere. The Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Real are conducted by Titus Engel, who made his debut in Madrid last season.

A modern opera adaptation by Charles Wuorinen based on Annie Proulx’s short story previously adapted by Ang Lee for the Oscar-winning film Brokeback Mountain. This marks Wuorinen’s return to the opera stage with one of the major works of his career, equally ambitious in its beauty and momentous tragedy. Brokeback is the story of ranch hand Ennis del Mar and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist, two young men who meet and fall in love on the fictional Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming in 1963. Wuorinen says “It’s a story of doomed love, in this case a complex homosexual relationship taking place in a very homophobic society.”

Brokeback Mountain Wuorinen

Il Segreto di Brokeback Mountain

Approvato

Accordionist

Strumento

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Continuo

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianista

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Suonatore di flauto

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinista

Violino Piccolo Player

Violista

Altro

Ballando

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Chorus Director

Composizione

Coreografia

Coro

Direzione del coro

Docente di canto

Drammaturgia

Emittente radiotelevisiva

Extra

Illustrator

Insegnante

Libretto

Luci

Maestro ripassatore

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Parrucco

Photographer

Poet

Produzione esecutiva

Recitazione

Stage Manager

Suono

Traduzione

Trucco

Video

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Controtenore

Baritono

Alto

Mimi

Narrazione

Voce bianca

Full Brokeback Mountain by Charles Wuorinen here http://www.medici.tv/#!/brokeback-mountain-wuorinen-teatro-real-madrid-titus-engel-ivo-van-hoveCharles Wuori...

Daniel Okulitch & Tom Randle - Charles Wuorinen - Brokeback Mountain

El Teatro Real acoge el estreno mundial de la obra del compositor americano, con libreto de Annie Proulx, basado en su novela homónima.

Brokeback Mountain: ensayos finales | Teatro Real 13/14

Il Segreto di Brokeback Mountain by Wuorinen, dom 09 feb 2014, Da (2014/2014), Diretto da Ivo van Hove,, Direttore d'orchestra Titus Engel, Teatro Real, Madrid, Spagna

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