Ads
related to: a flowering tree opera
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A Flowering Tree is an opera in two acts composed by John Adams with a libretto by Adams and Peter Sellars, and commissioned by the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, the San Francisco Symphony, the Barbican Centre in London, the Lincoln Center in New York City, and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Symbolically speaking, the tree isolates and gives form to her capacity to put forth flowers and fragrance from within, a gift in which she could glory, as well as to the vulnerability that goes with it. It expresses a young woman's desire to flower sexually, and otherwise, as well as the dread of being ravaged that the very gift brings with it.
Adams's next opera, A Flowering Tree (2006), with a libretto by Adams and Sellars, is based on a folktale from the Kannada language of southern India translated by A. K. Ramanujan about a young girl who discovers she has the magic ability to transform into a flowering tree. The opera was commissioned as part of the Vienna New Crowned Hope ...
Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action.
A Flowering Tree; Fool's Paradise (opera) La forza del destino; Die Frau ohne Schatten; Frédégonde; G. Gilgamesh (Brucci opera) Gilgamesh (Saygun opera)
The Cave (opera) The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down; La Commedia; ... A Flowering Tree; G. Der goldene Drache; I. Innocence (opera) L. The Last ...
John Adams (1947– ): Antony and Cleopatra, The Death of Klinghoffer, Doctor Atomic, A Flowering Tree, El Niño, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, Nixon in China; George Ade: The Sho-Gun (1904) Thomas Adès (1971– ): Powder Her Face, The Tempest, The Exterminating Angel; Samuel Adler (1928– ): The Disappointment
Agnes Sorel (opera) Alban (opera) Albert Herring; Albion and Albanius; Alfred (Arne opera) Alice in Wonderland (opera) Alice's Adventures Under Ground (opera) Amahl and the Night Visitors; The Amber Witch (opera) Amelia (opera) Amelia Goes to the Ball; An American Soldier (opera) An American Tragedy (opera) Amilie, or the Love Test; Angel's ...