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« Reply #765 on: 15:44:49, 29-07-2008 » |
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The spaceship voyage which comes immediately to mind is Mr Broucek's visit to the moon.
As for shipwrecks, I seem to recall there's one in Weber's Oberon, which plot-wise is a cross between three different Mozart operas with other things thrown in for good measure.
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« Reply #766 on: 16:18:48, 29-07-2008 » |
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The spaceship voyage which comes immediately to mind is Mr Broucek's visit to the moon.
Not one of the ones I had in mind! But a very good addition nonetheless. |
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« Reply #767 on: 16:57:23, 29-07-2008 » |
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Train: I was thinking of Turn of the Screw, yes. BB's music does seem very geared towards train-ness there - but does anyone know whether that was what he actually intended? I guess James assumed a coach...
I looked in the libretto and it says "coach" but I agree, the music does sound like a train. Has anyone mentioned the partially wind-propelled hike in The Love of Three Oranges? Not that that's exactly a form of transport. |
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« Reply #768 on: 17:16:15, 29-07-2008 » |
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How about spaceship voyages?
I can think of at least 3!
Philip Glass' The Voyage |
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« Reply #769 on: 18:01:21, 29-07-2008 » |
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The Turk arrives in Italy by boat. In the 2005 Royal Opera production, a rather ostentatious yacht of a type some of the audience were probably familiar with.  |
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« Reply #770 on: 19:54:04, 29-07-2008 » |
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How about spaceship voyages?
I can think of at least 3!
There's one in Martin Butler's neglected masterpiece, Craig's Progress. (A fact that only two, possibly three, members here could be expected to know.   ) |
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« Reply #771 on: 20:03:33, 29-07-2008 » |
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How about spaceship voyages?
I can think of at least 3!
Philip Glass' The VoyageI was thinking of the possible journey in Einstein on the Beach but was ready to accept something else (does The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 also have a journey by spaceship?). There's one in Martin Butler's neglected masterpiece, Craig's Progress.
I did not know that. That wasn't one of the remaining two I had... So we have a burgeoning list developing! |
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« Reply #772 on: 20:13:34, 29-07-2008 » |
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Would you count the Return to the Forbidden Planet? I don't know Einstein on the Beach or Craig's Progress, I'm afraid.  |
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« Reply #773 on: 20:20:02, 29-07-2008 » |
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Would you count the Return to the Forbidden Planet?
Um. No. Not personally. The three operas of which I had originally thought were respectively American (Glass), British and German. And all three are considered as important figures within their own country. |
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« Reply #774 on: 20:24:29, 29-07-2008 » |
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All about little green men Martle?  |
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« Reply #775 on: 20:24:57, 29-07-2008 » |
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There's one in Martin Butler's neglected masterpiece, Craig's Progress.
I believe you may be quite familiar with the composer, librettist, and opera - I have been curious for a while to know whether the particular representations of underpants in that opera was in any sense inspired by the then Prime Minister? |
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« Reply #776 on: 20:26:07, 29-07-2008 » |
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Aniara by Swedish composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl is set on a spaceship.
Is the German work by Henze?
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« Reply #777 on: 20:28:57, 29-07-2008 » |
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Is the German work by Henze?
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« Reply #778 on: 20:39:03, 29-07-2008 » |
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Would the other British one be Tippett's New Year?
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« Reply #779 on: 20:44:19, 29-07-2008 » |
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Would the other British one be Tippett's New Year?
Good call, George. Is the German work Stockhausen's Sirius? |
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