Kopernikus : "Opéra-rituel de mort" = "A ritual opera of death" / Claude Vivier.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Vivier, Claude, 1948-1983.

Contributor:

Parent, Yolande, performer.

Vaillancourt, Pauline, 1945- performer.

Parent, Marie-Danielle, performer.

Fleury, Jocelyne, performer.

Doane, David, performer.

Ducharme, Michel, performer.

Saint-Amant, Yves, performer.

Vaillancourt, Lorraine, 1943- conductor.

Language:

English

French

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Operas.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Operas.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (67 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Opéra-rituel de mort.

Ritual opera of death.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : CBC Records, [1992]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Participant:

Yolande Parent, Pauline Vaillancourt, sopranos ; Marie-Danielle Parent, mezzo-soprano ; Jocelyne Fleury, alto ; David Doane, "baryton Martin" ; Michel Ducharme, baritone ; Yves Saint-Amant, bass ; instrumental ensemble ; Lorraine Vaillancourt, conductor.

Notes:

"The work is written for 7 voices (coloratura soprano, soprano, mezzo-soprano, [alto], Martin baritone (or tenor), baritone and bass), and seven instruments (oboe, 3 clarinets, including a bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone and violin). Singers and players also play percussion intruments. A tape recorder is used to broadcast 3 musical extracts from the opera as premonitions or memories" -- Program notes, p. [27].

Text, in vocables, French, and other languages (or words from other languages), by the composer.

Recorded Feb. 10 and 12, 1991, Studio 12, Maison Radio-Canada, Montreal.

Compact disc.

Digital recording.

Program notes, notes on the singers and conductors, and libretto (in part abridged), with French translation of the lines in German ([32] p. : ill.) inserted in container.

OCLC:

64688702

Publisher Number:

MVCD 1047 CBC