Johannes Kalitzke: Kapitän Nemos Bibliothek (Live)
12/23/2024, 24 Tracks, 1:37:55
Featuring
Johannes Kalitzke
Iurii Iushkevich
Johanna Zimmer
Noa Frenkel
Reuben Willcox
Rinnat Moriah
Jaan Bossier
Andrew Digby
Hermann Kretzschmar
Rainer Römer
Simon Klavžar
Steffen Ahrens
Stefan Hussong
Megumi Kasakawa
Eva Böcker
Pierre Dekker
Ensemble Modern
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Compositional Technique
The music incorporates elements of children's songs and forms associated with childhood, and J. S. Bach's music plays a formative role in its development.
Compositional Technique
The opera's structure is based on a continuously repeating cycle of intervals, functioning like a Möbius strip, which expands, contracts, and varies throughout the composition.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The main textual reference for the opera is Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, with Captain Nemo inspiring the boys' imaginary library.
Recording & Production
This recording of Kapitän Nemos Bibliothek was made on April 29, 2022, at the Rokokotheater in Schwetzingen, Germany.
Composition History
Johannes Kalitzke's opera, Kapitän Nemos Bibliothek, premiered in 2022 at the Bregenz and Schwetzingen Festivals.
Compositional Technique
The opera combines singers and puppets to portray issues of identity, with puppets gaining emotional depth through the viewer's imagination.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The opera Kapitän Nemos Bibliothek is about a ruined childhood and escaping into an imaginary world of fantasy.
