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- Philip Glass
Kepler (2009)
- Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc (World)
Commissioned by Landestheater Linz and Linz09
Opera in two acts with prologue and epilogue.
Libretto (German, Latin) by Martina Winkel
- 2.pic.2(ca).2.cbcl(cl).2/4.3.3.1/5perc/cel.pn.hp/str
- 2S, Mz, T, Bar, B
- 1 hr 45 min
- Martina Winkel
- English, German, Latin
Programme Note
CAST
Kepler - baritone
Secondary (also Keplers) - 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass
chorus
SYNOPSIS
A portrait opera on the life of German mathmatician, astronomer, and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitomoe of Copernican Astronomy. These works provided the foundation for Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Kepler - baritone
Secondary (also Keplers) - 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass
chorus
SYNOPSIS
A portrait opera on the life of German mathmatician, astronomer, and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitomoe of Copernican Astronomy. These works provided the foundation for Newton's theory of universal gravitation