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The doll behind the curtain / Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 27892
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Tafreshipour, Amir Mahyar, composer.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (1 hr., 8 min., 42 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Åkersberga, Sweden : BIS, [2022]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- audio file
- CD audio
- Participant:
- Signe Sneh Durholm, soprano ; Elenor Wiman, mezzo-soprano ; Jonathan von Schwanenflügel, tenor ; Jakob Bloch Jespersen, bass-baritone ; Athelas Sinfonietta ; Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard, conductor.
- Notes:
- A chamber opera in two acts.
- Title from container.
- Libretto by Dominic Power based on a short story of the same title by Sadeq Hedayat.
- Recorded 2020 December 14th KFUMs Festsal, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Program notes and libretto in booklet inserted in container.
- Based on the short story by the same name by Sadeq Hedayat (1903-51), Iran's first modernist writer, The Doll behind the Curtain is an opera from Iranian-Danish composer Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour and librettist Dominic Power. It explores themes of alienation, the mysteries of human sexuality and the dissonance, both musical and cultural, between East and West and tradition and modernity.
- OCLC:
- 1358776371
- Publisher Number:
- 7318590025963
- BIS-2596 BIS
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