The CD release of “A Dream Play – A Chamber Opera for Soloists and Small Orchestra”
Composer
S.J. Pettersson has followed up his 2007 Ballet “Gaudi – Dancing
About Architecture” with a “Chamber Opera for Soloists and Small
Orchestra” based on the 1901 stage play “A Dream Play” by famed
Swedish playwright August Strindberg. S.J. Pettersson’s take on the
play is often more akin to a song cycle interspersed with
instrumental pieces that tell the story in an unusual and captivating
style. We hear anachronistic elements of Bach, Shubert, Beethoven,
Chopin, Shostakovich, Weill and Michael Nyman seamlessly mixed
together into a flowing dream-like mélange of music and pure-tone
voices.
Selected
pieces of the work was first performed in New York Sept 2009 as part
of Vox Novus Composer’s Voice concert series and again in May 2010
as part of a Metropolis Opera Project’s annual M.O.P Bucket
concert.
The Los
Angeles CD release concert/event was held June 19that Classical Music LA’s weekly classical concert series at The
Lounge in Hermosa Beach (Los Angeles answer to New York’s Le
Poisson Rouge) where large portions of the Chamber Opera was
performed by a 12 person orchestra featuring many performers on the
CD including such notable internationally known musicians such as
pianist Yana Reznik, violinist Moni Simeonov, cellist Maksim
Velichkin and Soprano Gian-Carla Tisera. Selections of the opera will
also be performed at Los Angeles famed Classical Underground concert
series in October 2010, featuring renowned Russian coloratura soprano
Oxana Senina.
A full
staging of “A Dream Play” is planned for fall 2010 in Los Angeles
and early spring 2011 in New York.
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