From the mattress tomb
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Title: | From the mattress tomb |
Shape: | "Liederspiel" in four parts |
Original language: | German |
Music: | Günter Bialas |
Libretto : | Günter Bialas |
Literary source: | Heinrich Heine |
Premiere: | 1992 |
Place of premiere: | Kiel Opera House |
Place and time of the action: | Paris, 19th century |
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From the Matratzengruft is an opera by the composer Günter Bialas , which was premiered in 1992 under the direction of Rosamund Gilmore at the Kiel Opera House .
layout
Bialas had created his last stage work in 1983, initially as a song cycle , but expanded it in 1990/91 to a “Liederspiel after and with Heinrich Heine”. The four-part composition for narrator, soloist, choir and orchestra has a strong chamber music character. It is suitable for both a concert and a staged performance. The song numbers alternate with recitations by the narrator.
content
The main character of the opera is the poet Heinrich Heine , who called the eight-year sick bed that preceded his death the “mattress tomb”. Tormented by illness and pain, he looks back on his life in a sometimes mocking, sometimes sad and serious way. In addition to the young and old, dying Heine, other characters from his life appear, including Elise Krinitz , the "Mouche".
The opera's libretto is based on texts from Heine's last years: excerpts from his memoirs, letters and wills, poems from 1848–1856, especially those from the Romanzero collection , but also passages from the cycle created in the early 1840s Germany. A winter fairy tale .
The titles of the four parts and the individual numbers are:
- To Düsseldorf on the Rhine ...
- 1st part: love
- Scene and Arioso: She doesn't love me!
- intermezzo
- I kissed the red cap
- Three love songs
- In the morning I get up and ask ...
- The Nightingale
- When two separate
- Frankly, what a terrible disease ...
- 2nd part: Romanzero
- Old song
- It's also a heartbreaking thing ...
- Lazarus
- Whims of lovers
- The subject, the material of the poem ...
- memory
- intermezzo
- The following legend ...
- Part 3: Germany - A winter fairy tale
- I think of Germany at night ...
- While the little one trilled with heavenly lust ...
- The Lorelei
- Be calm, I'll take the Rhine ...
- The Silesian weavers
- This admission that the future belongs to the communists ...
- 4th part: lamentations
- The sun rose near Paderborn
- It is the old Jehovah himself ...
- The departing
- Maybe God is not right at all ...
- The lotus flower
- Yes, I had enemies in this world ...
- He should not be thought of
- O miserere
- How much I must envy their fate!
- Lamento for piano
- Where?
- I really don't know if I deserve it
- Eternity how long are you
literature
- Gabriele E. Meyer (Ed.): "No sound too much". Günter Bialas in personal testimonies and in the mirror of his time . Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 1997, ISBN 3-7618-1396-1 .
Web links
- Work data for Aus der Matratzengruft based on the MGG with discography at Operone
- Critique of a performance in Hagen in 1997 in the Online Musik Magazin