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Der goldene Drache

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Der goldene Drache
Opera by Péter Eötvös
The composer in 2011
LibrettistRoland Schimmelpfennig
LanguageGerman
Based onSchimmelpfennig's play of the same name
Premiere
29 June 2014 (2014-06-29)
Bockenheimer Depot, by Oper Frankfurt

Der goldene Drache (The Golden Dragon) is an opera by Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös to a libretto by Roland Schimmelpfennig, based on his play of the same name. It premiered on 29 June 2014 at the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt, conducted by the composer.

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History

Eötvös composed the opera in 2013/14 on a commission by ensemble modern and the Oper Frankfurt, his ninth opera.[1] He had written operas on literary plots before, beginning with his first in 1998, Tri sestry (Three Sisters) after Anton Chekhov's play.[2] The German libretto by Schimmelpfennig is based on his play of the same name. The play had premiered five years earlier at the Akademietheater in Vienna, staged by the author,[2] and was awarded the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis of 2010. Schimmelpfenig and Eötvös chose 21 short scenes from the play's 48[3] "disparate snapshots".[4] The opera premiered on 29 June 2014 in Frankfurt's Bockenheimer Depot, conducted by the composer.[5] It was staged by Elisabeth Stöppler, with stage design by Hermann Feuchter and costumes by Nicole Pleuler. The composer revised the opera in 2015.[4] The Frankfurt production was then shown at the Bregenz Festival in August 2015.[1] The UK premiere was toured by Music Theatre Wales in 2017, during which time it was banned from the stage of the Hackney Empire for alleged "yellowface" racism.[6]

Roles

The five singers required for a performance all perform several of the 18 roles, switching gender, age and culture.[2][4][5] Their voices are amplified.[4][5] The duration is given as 1 1/2 hours.[3]

Roles Voice type Premiere cast, 29 June 2014
Conductor: Péter Eötvös[4]
Young woman / The little Chinese soprano Kateryna Kasper
Woman over 60 / Old cook / granddaughter / Ant / Hans / Chinese mother mezzo-soprano Hedwig Fassbender
Young man / young Asian / waitress / grandfather / Cricket / Chinese aunt tenor Simon Bode
Man over 60 / old Asian / Eve (dark-brown stewardess) / granddaughter's friend / Chinese father tenor Hans-Jürgen Lazar
Man / Asian / Inga (the blonde stewardess) / Chinese uncle baritone Holger Falk [de]

Plot and music

The story begins in a Chinese restaurant, where a cook, the Little Chinese, suffers from toothache. As an illegal immigrant, he avoids seeing a dentist.[3] When the tooth is extracted unprofessionally in the kitchen, he bleeds to death. A stewardess finds the tooth in her bowl of soup and takes it on a trip to China.[3]

The story is both tragic and comic, absurd, grotesque and enigmatic. The music adds even more dimensions, revealing connections and psychological aspects.[3] It uses parlando style for many scenes, but reserves a final monologue of farewell to the Little Chinese.[3]

Instrumentation

The instrumentation calls for:

References

  1. ^ a b "Der goldene Drache / Musiktheater (2014) von Peter Eötvös" (in German). Bregenz Festival. 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Lange, Joachim (30 June 2014). "Wenn der Zahn aber nun ein Loch hat" (in German). Die Deutsche Bühne. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Decker-Bönniger, Ursula (4 July 2014). "Das politische Musiktheater lebt! / Der goldene Drache (UA)" (in German). Online Musik Magazin. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Der goldene Drache". Schott. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  5. ^ a b c Jungheinrich, Hans-Klaus (30 June 2014). "Peter Eötvös: Der goldene Drache in Frankfurt / Aus der Bistroküche nach Utopia" (in German). Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Hackney Empire pulls out of Chinese takeaway opera over all-white cast". the Guardian. 12 October 2017.

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