Oehring, Helmut: DAS D'AMATO SYSTEM (1996) 60'
Dance opera in 15 scenes
Music Text Deutsch
Text by Helmut Oehring (G)
Scoring
deaf female soloist (sign- and spoken language), 2 voices, 1 speaker, 2 dancers; bfl.ob.bcl-hrn.tpt.trbn-perc(2)-harp-pft(=sample keyboard)-elec.gtr(=elec.bass)-vl.vlc.
Abbreviations (PDF).
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.
For full details on this stagework, including synopsis and roles, please visit our Opera section.
World Premiere
5/9/1996
Carl Orff Saal, Munich
Maxim Dessau, director / Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin / Roland Kluttig
Programme Note Deutsch
Press Quotes Deutsch
"On first hearing and watching, Oehring’s dance opera presents itself as a conglomerate of various components of musical theatre which, though captivating, are difficult to disentangle. The musicians sit at the front of the stage and play the scores as if they were the sound track to a nightmarish piece of musical theatre: an opera sliding between seriousness and entertainment, between delicate chamber music and crashing disco sound, between gentle, minimalist introspection and hammering rock rhythms. The whole mixture of electronically produced sounds and special effects, of live music amplified in a sophisticated manner (with the ‘circle-surround’ sound system) must be based on a hidden structure - this remains the secret of the score of a strong yet vulnerable composer. The crucial element of the whole ‘composition’ is Helmut Oehring’s almost filmic technique of starkly cutting sounds. It’s very exciting." (Wolfgang Schreiber, SZ, 10.05.1996)
Recommended Recording
Christina Schönfeld / Salome Kammer / Matthias Hille / Anna Clementi
Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin / Roland Kluttig
Deutscher Musikrat, Editon "Musik in Deutschland" (1950–2000) (Oper)
(excerpt)
BMG/ RCA 74321 73544 2
Click here to purchase this CD
Dance opera in 15 scenes
Music Text Deutsch
Text by Helmut Oehring (G)
Scoring
deaf female soloist (sign- and spoken language), 2 voices, 1 speaker, 2 dancers; bfl.ob.bcl-hrn.tpt.trbn-perc(2)-harp-pft(=sample keyboard)-elec.gtr(=elec.bass)-vl.vlc.
Abbreviations (PDF).
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.
For full details on this stagework, including synopsis and roles, please visit our Opera section.
World Premiere
5/9/1996
Carl Orff Saal, Munich
Maxim Dessau, director / Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin / Roland Kluttig
Programme Note Deutsch
Press Quotes Deutsch
"On first hearing and watching, Oehring’s dance opera presents itself as a conglomerate of various components of musical theatre which, though captivating, are difficult to disentangle. The musicians sit at the front of the stage and play the scores as if they were the sound track to a nightmarish piece of musical theatre: an opera sliding between seriousness and entertainment, between delicate chamber music and crashing disco sound, between gentle, minimalist introspection and hammering rock rhythms. The whole mixture of electronically produced sounds and special effects, of live music amplified in a sophisticated manner (with the ‘circle-surround’ sound system) must be based on a hidden structure - this remains the secret of the score of a strong yet vulnerable composer. The crucial element of the whole ‘composition’ is Helmut Oehring’s almost filmic technique of starkly cutting sounds. It’s very exciting." (Wolfgang Schreiber, SZ, 10.05.1996)
Recommended Recording
Christina Schönfeld / Salome Kammer / Matthias Hille / Anna Clementi
Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin / Roland Kluttig
Deutscher Musikrat, Editon "Musik in Deutschland" (1950–2000) (Oper)
(excerpt)
BMG/ RCA 74321 73544 2
Click here to purchase this CD
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