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(2023-2024)Libretto by Katharina Schmitt (G)
4S,M/A,T/Bar,Bar(also CT); sm speaking chorus; mixed chorus(with soli);
4(II=bfl,III,IV=picc).2(II=corA).4(II=bcl,dbcl,II,IV=Ebcl).2(II=dbn)-4.2.3.1-timp.perc(3)-pft/sampler-harp-strings(12.9.8.6.4)-playback
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Bote & Bock
Staatenhaus Saal 3, Köln
Katharina Schmitt, director
Conductor: Ondrej Adámek
Company: Oper Köln
| E | Soprano |
| E2, E3, E4: doubles of E, Girls of Hiroshima | Sopranos |
| O | Lower baryton – Countertenor |
| Ä (medical doctor) | Lower female voice |
| Narrator 1 | Tenor/Baryton |
| Minor soloists or Chor-soloists: | (voice requirements see music score) |
| Nurse | |
| O2 | |
| Narrator 2, 3 | |
| Spoken choir | 8 solo voices |
| SATB choir | 32–80 voices |
The world after a nuclear disaster: O is filled with an irrepressible grief because his lover E is dead. He can no longer hear her, no longer remember her face and would like to become a shadow himself. The unity of place and time seems to be dissolved; the lovers separated from each other forever. For while O exists in the linear time of the living, E is absorbed in the timelessness of the dead and must watch her body become an immobile and transparent shell.
Cologne Opera
Dramatic