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Shadowtime
Shadowtime
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- Creator
- Brian Ferneyhough ; [libretto by Charles Bernstein]
- Format
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- Languages
- English, Undetermined
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Edition Peters : Hinrichen Edition, [2007?]
- [2007?], c2004
- Physical Details
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- 1 score (432 pages) ; 30 cm
- OCLC
- ocn166334201
- Opera in 7 scenes.
- A thought opera based on the work and life of the German philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic, Walter Benjamin. Cf. Libretto, published 2005.
- Some scenes preceded by performance instructions, performance history and libretti.
- "Scene V is printed in landscape format"--T.p. verso.
- Publishers no.: Edition Peters no. 7732 (p. 3), Edition Peters no. 7713 (p. 71), Edition Peters no. 7564 (p. 151), Edition Peters no. 7606 (p. 249), Edition Peters no. 7747 (p. 279), Edition Peters no. 7719 (p. 341), Edition Peters no. 7611 (p. 385)
- English words; also includes nonsense syllables (Scene 7).
- 1. New angles/Transient failure (prologue) -- 2. Les froissements des ailes de Gabriel (first barrier) -- 3. The doctrine of similarity (13 canons) -- 4. Opus contra naturam (Descent of Benjamin into the underworld) -- 5. Pools of darkness (11 interrogations) -- 6. Seven tableaux vivants representing the Angel of history as Melancholia (second barrier) -- 7. Stelæ for failed time (Solo for Melancholia as the Angel of history)