Complete Works: Opera/Music Theatre
The Burial at Thebes
Dramma per musica: a setting to music of Seamus Heaney's verse translation of Sophocles' tragedy "Antigone".
First commissioned by Peter Manning for Manning Camerata. Commission supported by Anda Winters.
Première at the Globe Theatre, London, October 2008. Director: Derek Walcott.
Duration: I hour, 30 minutes
First commissioned by Peter Manning for Manning Camerata. Commission supported by Anda Winters.
Première at the Globe Theatre, London, October 2008. Director: Derek Walcott.
Duration: I hour, 30 minutes
Instrumentation
Wind: Flute doubling with Bass Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, 2 Horns in F, B flat Trumpet, Trombone
Percussion: Suspended Cymbal (with sticks and mallets), Charleston Cymbal with sticks and brushes, Snare Drum with sticks and brushes, Bass Drum, Tom Drum, Whip, Timpani (4 drums)
Vocal distribution
Antigone: Soprano
Eurydice: Soprano
Ismene: Mezzo-Soprano
Haemon: Tenor
Creon: High Baritone
Tiresias: Baritone
Chorus: Soprano, Countertenor, Tenor, Bass-Baritone
Wind: Flute doubling with Bass Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, 2 Horns in F, B flat Trumpet, Trombone
Percussion: Suspended Cymbal (with sticks and mallets), Charleston Cymbal with sticks and brushes, Snare Drum with sticks and brushes, Bass Drum, Tom Drum, Whip, Timpani (4 drums)
Vocal distribution
Antigone: Soprano
Eurydice: Soprano
Ismene: Mezzo-Soprano
Haemon: Tenor
Creon: High Baritone
Tiresias: Baritone
Chorus: Soprano, Countertenor, Tenor, Bass-Baritone
Photos taken at the Globe Theatre, London by Anna Leader