Wolfgang Rihm
Aria/Ariadne
Short instrumentation: 0 1 0 0 - 2 0 0 0 - hp, str(6 6 4 4 2)
Duration: 30'
Text von: Friedrich Nietzsche
Dedication: geschrieben für Juliane Banse und das Münchner Kammerorchester, Leitung: Christoph Poppen
Solos:
soprano
Instrumentation details:
oboe
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
harp
1st violin I(2)
2nd violin I(2)
3rd violin I(2)
1st violin II(2)
2nd violin II(2)
3rd violin II(2)
1st viola(2)
2nd viola(2)
1st violoncello(2)
2nd violoncello(2)
contrabass(2)
Rihm - Aria/Ariadne for soprano and chamber orchestra
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Wolfgang Rihm
Rihm: Aria/AriadneOrchestration: für Sopran und Kammerorchester
Type: Noten
Language: Deutsch
Wolfgang Rihm
Rihm: Aria/AriadneOrchestration: für Sopran und Kammerorchester
Type: Dirigierpartitur
Language: Deutsch
Wolfgang Rihm
Rihm: Aria/AriadneOrchestration: für Sopran und Kammerorchester
Type: Studienpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
Language: Deutsch
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While Rihm was composing Aria/Ariadne, he was already thinking of writing an opera on the Dionysus theme (which he eventually did in 2009/2010). Aria/Ariadne is one of his many confrontations with Nietzsche; it is a setting of Ariadne’s Lament from the Dionysus Dithyrambs. Rihm’s subtitle Szenarie could be a hapax legomenon; even when he was composing the aria, he was already thinking of a staged version; and that became reality in 2009, when it was performed in Basle as part of the operatic presentation Drei Frauen, together with the Penthesilea Monologue and Das Gehege.
Translation © 2012 by Grant Chorley