This is the first episode in a new series of podcasts by Studio zOaR, the production and composition nexus for composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp.
In this podcast, Sharp gives an overview of his opera Die Grösste Fuge which will receive its US premiere on June 13, 2024 at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY.
For more information and tickets:
roulette.org/event/elliott-sharp-die-grosste-fuge/
Nearing the end of his life and almost completely deaf, Beethoven becomes unmoored from reality and travels to the future and back. Witnessing our world’s horrors and beauty inspires him to compose his final work “Die Grösse Fuge” (The Great Fugue).
One may listen to the entire opera, Die Grösste Fuge, here:
elliottsharpoperas.bandcamp.com/album/die-gr-te-fugue
While the original version of Die Grösste Fuge was sung in German, the work has been translated into English for the US premiere.
Die Grösste Fuge - A Sci-Fi Beethoven Opera
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Die Grösste Fuge - A Sci-Fi Beethoven Opera
Elliott Sharp gives an introduction to this opera about Beethoven visiting our time with its beauty and horror inspiring his landmark composition Die Größe Fuge
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Die Grösste Fuge - A Sci-Fi Beethoven Opera
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Translations From The IrRational Podcast 1: Die Grösste Fuge opera - An Introduction
Elliott Sharp describes his sci-fi Beethoven opera Die Grösste Fuge which will receive its US premiere on June 13, 2024 at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn NY
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