the CIVIL warS - Rome
A tree is best measured when it is down.
Act V - Rome section (1983) 120'
Music by Philip Glass. Libretto by Maita di Nascemi and Robert Wilson. Text in Latin, Italian, English.
CAST:
S, Mz, T, Bar, B; 2 speaking parts (M+F); SATB chorus; 2 (pic) .2.2(bcl).2/ 4.3.2 btbn.1/hp/ timp. 3 perc (SD, BD, cym, wdbl)/ str, fl, cl, bn, 4hn, 2 vln, va, vc, bass.
COMMISSION:
Commissioned by the Opera di Roma
PREMIERE:
March 1984, Opera di Roma, conducted by Marcello Panni
NOTES:
Part of Robert Wilson's multi-composer epic for the Olympic Games of 1984, the Rome Section of "the CIVIL warS" is a unit all its own, non-narrative, and portrays the future, the present, the past (both near and distant), and the legendary - all existing simultaneously. The opera is symbolic, metephysical, realistic, metaphomical, and its stage ranges from ancient Athens to the spaceship-filled future of the human race.
PUBLISHER:
Dunvagen Music Publishers
AVAILABLE SCORES:
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the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down. ACT V - Rome Section at ChesterNovello.com
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Interlude No. 1 from "the CIVIL warS - Rome Section" at ChesterNovello.com
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Interlude No. 2 from "the CIVIL warS - Rome Section" at ChesterNovello.com
RELATED COMPOSITIONS:
RELATED RECORDINGS:
- Symphony No. 3 on Nonesuch
- the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down. Act V — The Rome Section on Nonesuch Records
CATEGORIES:
Opera
