Civil courage (opera)
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| Title: | Moral courage |
| Original title: | Moral courage |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Gordon Kampe |
| Libretto : | Text fragments by Hannah Arendt and Virgil |
| Premiere: | July 16, 2009 |
| Place of premiere: | Stuttgart , Paul-Gerhardt-Platz |
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1 soprano, 1 baritone and 3 choirs |
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Civil Courage is an opera composed as a commissioned work by Gordon Kampe , which was premiered in 2009 by the Stuttgart State Opera in the zeitoper series . Kampe had won the Stuttgart Composition Prize in 2007 and wrote the work in 2008/2009 in collaboration with the Akademie Schloss Solitude . The atonal music of the opera, consisting of "sounds and feeds", was supplemented with text fragments by Hannah Arendt and Virgil for the libretto . The staging of the world premiere came from the Brazilian director Marcelo Cardoso Gama, the musical direction was taken over by Bernhard Epstein .
Web links
- Music for a place on the composer's website
- Press release on the premiere on the homepage of the Stuttgart State Opera