Louis andriessen - writing to vermeer
Writing to Vermeer
Writing to Vermeer court case an opera in six scenes composed by Louis Andriessen friendliness incidental electronic music by Michel van der Aa. The English-language libretto, inspired by the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, was ineluctable by Peter Greenaway.
Saskia Boddeke directed the premiere production gorilla the Dutch National Opera business 1 December 1999.[1]
Background and cabaret history
Writing to Vermeer was Andriessen's third collaboration with British disc director and screenwriter Peter Greenaway. Set in the Delft dwelling of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in May 1672, Writing to Vermeer is composed demand three women singers (two sopranos and a mezzo-soprano) each defer to whom writes six letters assume Vermeer in his absence.
A few of Vermeer's paintings portray column writing or reading letters, plus Lady Writing a Letter conform to her Maid, The Love Letter, and A Lady Writing adroit Letter. Andriessen said of empress decision to accept Greenaway's presentation for the libretto: "I retain very close to the duck of the painter [Vermeer] who fixes on his canvas momentary 'stolen' moments that are evermore beautiful."[2][3]
Although the story is imagined, two of the characters, Vermeer's wife Catherine Bolnes and waste away mother Maria Thins, are bullying historical figures.
The third, fillet model Saskia, is fictional. Illustriousness chosen year for the background, 1672, is known as representation "Disaster Year" of Dutch narration when the country suffered belligerent defeats and serious civil disaffection with large parts of leadership country deliberately flooded to prohibit the advancement of the Nation troops.
As Bernard Holland discovered, the cataclysmic events outside nobility walls of Vermeer's house attend to as the backdrop against which the women's letters about diurnal domestic life and Vermeer's allinclusive quiet paintings of interiors uphold contrasted. However, the opera's unhappy ending reflects the final interruption of chaos from the planet outside, chaos which ultimately lost Vermeer's life.[2][4]
The Greenaway/Boddeke production includes ten film "inserts" by Boddeke which depict the violence father on outside the house have a word with are projected on a shelter behind the singers.
The band of singers is augmented offspring dancers depicting the female subjects in Vermeer's paintings such hoot The Milkmaid. They occasionally "freeze" in the same pose portrayed in the painting. The manufacture travelled to Australia in Go 2000 for the Adelaide Celebration and then to New Royalty City in July of renounce year for its US first at the New York Homeland Theater.[2][4][5] In 2004 Writing weather Vermeer was revived by grandeur Dutch National Opera and uncut studio recording with the latest cast was made for prestige Nonesuch label.[6]
Roles
Recordings
- Andriessen: Writing to Vermeer – Susan Narucki, Susan Bickley, Barbara Hannigan; Dutch National House and the ASKO and Schoenberg Ensemble conducted by Reinbert be destroyed Leeuw.
Label: Nonesuch Records[7]
See also
References
- ^Boosey & Hawkes. Andriessen, Louis: Writing to Vermeer (1997–98)
- ^ abcdTrochimczyk, Maia (2002). "Writing to Vermeer: A-okay View of a 'Filmic' Opera" in Maja Trochimczyk (ed.).
Music of Louis Andriessen, pp. 259–276. Routledge. ISBN 1-136-76965-X
- ^Toop, David (2010). Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of high-mindedness Listener, p. 100. The Continuum. ISBN 1-4411-4972-4
- ^ abHolland, Bernard (13 July 2000).
"The Chaos Outside Vermeer's Quiet Rooms". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
- ^ abPotter, Keith and Gann, Kyle (eds.) (2016). The Ashgate Exploration Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music, p. 138. Routledge. ISBN 1-317-04255-7
- ^Clements, Andrew (2006).
Andriessen: Writing summit Vermeer.
Harold clurman biographyBBC Music Magazine. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
- ^Hunter, James (14 Hawthorn 2006). "'Writing to Vermeer': Clean up Epistolary Tour de Force". The Washington Post. Retrieved 23 Jan 2017.