Michael Nyman: Man and Boy - Dada
Michael Nyman: Man and Boy - Dada
又名: 尼曼－歌剧《男人与男孩：达达》
表演者: John Graham-Hall/William Sheldon/Vivian Tierney/Michael Nyman Band/Paul McGrath
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2008-07-29
唱片数: 2
出版者: Michael Nyman
条形码: 8442480002990
专辑简介
MAN AND BOY: DADA
An Opera in two acts composed by Michael Nyman
Libretto: Michael Hastings
The generously packaged, slip cased 2-CD set contains a four-colour 44-page booklet with complete libretto.
Man and Boy: Dada is the first in a triptych of chamber operas written by Nyman with librettist Michael Hastings. It tells the story of the unlikely friendships between the ageing Dadaist artist Kurt Schwitters, who is exiled in war-torn London; a 12-year-old boy called Michael, who shares the artist's obsession with collecting London Transport bus tickets; and Michael's mother, widowed by the war. The recording reunites the cast from the UK premiere performance at the Almeida Theatre in July 2004 – tenor John Graham Hall as Schwitters, William Sheldon as the boy, and soprano Vivian Tierney as the boy's mother. Paul McGrath conducts the Michael Nyman Band.
Nyman's identification with the storyline runs deep, for as a child growing up in South Chingford in the 1950s, he hoarded bus tickets as part of a collecting mania that also included cigarette cards, matchbox labels, coins and train numbers. In 2001, Hastings approached Nyman to suggest collaborating on a radio play about a post-war London boy who collected bus tickets. Nyman naturally recognised himself in the main character. But he also had an extra element to contribute to the story line. He had recently returned from Dusseldorf where he saw a Schwitters exhibition and discovered the artist's recurring use of bus tickets in his collages. The fusion of the two characters' mutual fixation leads to a friendship which drives the opera's plot which also reveals the terrible loss suffered by Schwitters as he was forced by the Nazis to leave Germany.
The Almeida production of Man and Boy: Dada was greeted with critical acclaim. "Touching and witty, na?ve and profound, Man and Boy: Dada is a journey, well worth taking," said Nick Kimberley in The Evening Standard. Writing in the Financial Times, David Murray called it a "genuine success," and Ivan Hewett in The Daily Telegraph found it a "a subtle and touching piece of music-theatre."
Music by Michael Nyman
Libretto by Michael Hastings
曲目
1. Man and Boy: Dada: Act I Scene 1, "You need a ticket to breathe the air" (Michael, Kurt, A Woman) 00:06:59
2. Man and Boy: Dada: Act I Scene 2, "A few things I collect beside bus tickets" (A Woman, Michael, Kurt) 00:06:41
3. Man and Boy: Dada: Act I Scene 3, "Any more fares please?" (Michael, Kurt, Conductress) 00:04:17
4. Man and Boy: Dada: Act I Scene 4, "It's kind of interesting rubbish" (Kurt, Michael) 00:06:13
5. Man and Boy: Dada: Act I Scene 5, "Scarper!" (Kurt, Michael, Museum Attendant) 00:03:29
6. Man and Boy: Dada: Act I Scene 6, "Forty sheep and twenty reindeer?" (BBC Interviewer, Kurt) 00:03:26
7. Man and Boy: Dada: Act I Scene 7, "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases" (Kurt, Michael's Mother, Michael) 00:04:45
8. Man and Boy: Dada: Act I Scene 8, "Except take a piss" (Michael, Kurt) 00:04:08
9. Man and Boy: Dada: Act I Scene 9, "Doodlebug" (Michael, Michael's Mother) 00:02:28
1. Man and Boy: Dada: Act II Scene 10, "A famous cup of British tea" (Kurt, Michael's Mother) 00:06:29
2. Man and Boy: Dada: Act II Scene 11, "This was a good one - Ponders End to Waterloo" (Michael, Kurt) 00:04:22
3. Man and Boy: Dada: Act II Scene 12, "I'm highly adept at the tango" (Michael's Mother, Kurt) 00:06:52
4. Man and Boy: Dada: Act II Scene 13, "Show me a bike!" (Michael, Kurt) 00:03:40
5. Man and Boy: Dada: Act II Scene 14, "Chuk persh szing!" (Kurt, Michael's Mother) 00:07:34
6. Man and Boy: Dada: Act II Scene 15, "Happy birthday, dear Michael!" (Michael's Mother, Kurt, Michael) 00:05:29
7. Man and Boy: Dada: Act II Scene 16, "I am having trouble with hanky panky" (Michael's Mother, Kurt) 00:06:46
8. Man and Boy: Dada: Act II Scene 17, "Latin a la Hammersmith Broadway" (Michael's Mother, Kurt) 00:02:34
9. Man and Boy: Dada: Act II Scene 18, "A hundred stops but they have no name" (Michael, Kurt) 00:08:04
10. Man and Boy: Dada: Act II Scene 19, "I was trying to explain something about Dada" (Michael, Kurt) 00:10:32
Graham-Hall, John - tenor
Sheldon, William - boy soprano
Tierney, Vivian - soprano
Michael Nyman Band
McGrath, Paul - Conductor