Solyaris (1968)

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> An opera adaptation of "Solaris" by Detlev Glanert will be put on stage next
> year:
>
> http://www.boosey.com/pages/opera/moredetails.asp?musicid=53954
>
> Just recently I heard Glanert's opera version of Hans Henny Jahnn's "Das
> Holzschiff" (The Ship)
> which I liked a lot in its impressionistic drive. The sea motives reminded
> me of Debussy.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev_Glanert
>
> Detlev Glanert, who studied four years under Henze, also composed a work
> inspired by the
> whole "Fluss ohne Ufer" (Shoreless River) and is, thus, among the very few
> to realize that
> Hans Henny Jahnn was, together with Gottfried Benn and Thomas Mann, the
> crucial German
> writer of the 20th century. As I hope, the music will bring people to read
> the novels and plays.
>
> http://www.hans-henny-jahnn.de/
>
> But we were talking about adaptations of SciFi novels, so here comes
> something from VALIS:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYiFQfi8IT0
>
> Is there a P-lister who saw the opera on stage?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod_Machover