Cerrone - In a Grove
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Label: In A Circle
Cat No: ICR028
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 21st July 2023
Contents
Artists
Lindsay Kesselman (soprano)Chuanyuan Liu (countertenor)
Andrew Turner (tenor)
John Taylor Ward (baritone)
Metropolis Ensemble
Works
In a GroveArtists
Lindsay Kesselman (soprano)Chuanyuan Liu (countertenor)
Andrew Turner (tenor)
John Taylor Ward (baritone)
Metropolis Ensemble
About
Sited within a ghost forest in the Pacific Northwest in 1922, the opera unfolds within a barren, haunted landscape devastated by wildfire. Into a terrain of broken dreams, marred by violence and obfuscated by smoke, comes a young woman who upends conventional notions of gender and narratives of victimhood, claiming agency for herself. Transpiring within a frontier territory driven by class struggle and fear of the other, this retelling of Akutagawa's tale - famously adapted as the film Rashomon - manifests a world in which the environment is under siege, and wildly veering personal truths vie with absolute fact, shattering what one thinks they know. As a studio recording, the work becomes a sonic drama.
As with other recent studio projects, it was co-produced by Cerrone and Mike Tierney. They created a new kind of opera album, utilising overdubbing, multi-tracking, compression, and other studio techniques to create a brand-new sonic world, entirely different from the one created on stage. The shifting viewpoints of Akutagawa's story lend themselves eloquently to music's ability to conjure, via repetition, the ways human perception is fallible, imprecise, and subject to interference.
Characterised by a subtle handling of resonance, composer Christopher Cerrone's music balances lushness and austerity, immersive textures, and telling details. This new adaptation melds the dramatic impact and interiority of Cerrone's unique voice with librettist Stephanie Fleischmann's charged, poetic text to produce a powerful interrogation into how we see, hear, remember, and believe.
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