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modern painters (1995) 110'

Text by Manuella Halterhoff

major roles: Bar, lyric Sop, Ten, Mz Sop, dramatic Ten, character Sop, Bass; and 3 Ten, Sop, 2Bar, Bass, silent girl, chorus; 2(pic)2(ca)2(bcl)2/4220/2perc/pf(syn).hp/str

the Santa Fe Opera

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Setting a Rant to Music: On Adapting Thomas Bernhard’s ‘The Loser’ for the Opera

By David Lang
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September 22, 2016

In 1998, I wrote music for a production of Friedrich Schiller’s play Mary Stuart at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. The director was my friend Carey Perloff, the music was sung by the spectacular men’s vocal ensemble Chanticleer, and the translation of the text was by the writer and Village Voice theater critic Michael Feingold. There can be a lot of down time for a composer and a translator during theater rehearsals so Michael and I passed the time telling each other stories about books we should be reading, and Michael suggested I read Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser

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memorial ground (2016) 30'

massed singers and soloists

commissioned by East Neuk Festival and 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, supported by the National Lottery throughthe Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England and by the Department for Culture Media and Sport, with the support of Creative Scotland.

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