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Chamber opera is a designation for operas written to be performed with a chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra. Early 20th-century operas of this type include Paul Hindemith's Cardillac (1926). Earlier small-scale operas such as Pergolesi's La serva padrona (1733) are sometimes known as chamber operas. [1]
Manifest Destiny (opera) Manifest Destiny 2011; MARA: A Chamber Opera on Good and Evil; Martin's Lie; The Martyrdom of St Magnus; Missing (opera) Monsters of Grace; MR (Marina and Rainer) Mr Emmet Takes a Walk
MĀRA: A Chamber Opera on Good and Evil is an American chamber opera in two acts composed by Sherry Woods to a libretto by Stephen Batchelor. [1] The opera humanizes the story of Siddhattha Gotama (the Buddha) and his encounters with Māra, Taṇhā (Māra's daughter), and the demonic figures that appear to him as he seeks a way to live an awakened life in the world.
Powder Her Face, Op. 14 (1995), is a chamber opera in two acts by the British composer Thomas Adès, with an English libretto by Philip Hensher. The opera is 100 minutes long. It was commissioned by the Almeida Opera, a part of London's Almeida Theatre, for performances at the Cheltenham Music Festival.
The Warsaw Chamber Opera (Polish: Warszawska Opera Kameralna, WOK) is a Polish opera company founded in 1961 by Stefan Sutkowski, its managing and artistic director from its inception until his retirement in 2012. [1] [2] On 15 October 1986, the Warsaw Chamber Opera moved into its own theater at Al. Solidarności 76B.
The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, [1] based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. [ 2 ] It concerns a young, inexperienced governess sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is gradually convinced have been corrupted ...
Sāvitri is a chamber opera in one act with music composed by Gustav Holst, his Opus 25, to his own libretto.The story is based on the episode of Savitri and Satyavan from the Mahābhārata, which was also included in Specimens of Old Indian Poetry (Ralph Griffiths) and Idylls from the Sanskrit. [1]
The Chamber Opera Theater of New York was an American opera company located in New York City that operated from 1980 to 1986. The company mainly staged its works at the Marymount Manhattan Theater, but occasionally used other venues like the Brooklyn Academy of Music.