- Moritz Eggert
LINKERHAND. Opera after the like-named Novel by Brigitte Reimann (2008)
- Hans Sikorski (USA and Canada only)
- chamber chorus
- 1(pic).2(ca).2(Ebcl,bcl).1/2.1.3(btbn).0/perc/hp,egtr,pf(eorg)/str(6.5.4.3.1); elec
- Andrea Heuser, Brigitte Reimann
Programme Note
Program note:
Instead of retelling the plot of the novel, Andrea Heuser and Moritz Eggert have placed the inner landscape of Franziska Linkerhand at the focal point of the opera. In dense musical images comprised of elementary inner and outer stations in the development of the protagonist, the opera more or less makes a sound-world out of the poetic substrate of Reimann’s novel: the avowal of an original personal, untamed language of the heart in an environment marked by censor and norms in language. Out of the heroine’s insistence on her own, unmistakeable personal piece of life within the regimented GDR society, the tense representation of a conflict develops in which individuality and visionary thinking and feeling are confronted with the doctrinaire myth of collective art.
Instead of retelling the plot of the novel, Andrea Heuser and Moritz Eggert have placed the inner landscape of Franziska Linkerhand at the focal point of the opera. In dense musical images comprised of elementary inner and outer stations in the development of the protagonist, the opera more or less makes a sound-world out of the poetic substrate of Reimann’s novel: the avowal of an original personal, untamed language of the heart in an environment marked by censor and norms in language. Out of the heroine’s insistence on her own, unmistakeable personal piece of life within the regimented GDR society, the tense representation of a conflict develops in which individuality and visionary thinking and feeling are confronted with the doctrinaire myth of collective art.