Adams, John: A Flowering Tree (2006) 113'
Opera in 2 acts

Music Text      Deutsch
Libretto adapted by John Adams and Peter Sellars from a South Indian folktale and poems translated by A.K.Ramanujan (E/S)

Scoring
lyrS,T,B soloists, SATB chorus (min.40); 2.picc.treble recorder(=perc,opt.picc).alto recorder(=soprano recorder, perc,opt.fl)*.2(II=corA).2.bcl.2(II=dbn)-4.2.3.0-timp.perc(2)-harp-cel-strings(min. 12.10.8.6.5) *OPTIONAL: recorder players play some very simple percussion (rain sticks, etc.), or they can play only recorder.


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World Premiere
11/14/2006
Halle E im MuseumsQuartier, Wien
Peter Sellars, dir / Jessica Rivera, sop / Russell Thomas, ten / Eric Owens, bar / Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil Simón Bolívar; Schola Cantorum de Caracas / John Adams


Press Quotes      Deutsch
“The score is opulent, dreamlike, fiercely lyrical, at times shadowy and strange – unlike anything that the fifty-nine-year-old composer has written…”
The New Yorker

“…some of the most ravishingly beautiful passages of music that Adams has yet composed… [He] continues to develop and surprise — something of a late-flowering tree himself.”
Daily Telegraph



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