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Peter Maxwell Davies. The Lighthouse Study Score. Sheet Music. Opera. OPERA. Peter Maxwell Davies. --.

Vertaling

Peter Maxwell Davies. The Lighthouse Study Score. Sheet Music. Opera. OPERA. Peter Maxwell Davies. --.

Oorspronklik

Chamber opera in a prologue and one act. A ghost story telling of the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in the Hebrides. This is a mystery story in the form of a chamber opera. The prologue is set as a court of enquiry into the unexplained disappearance of the three keepers from a lighthouse. Questions are posed by a solo horn, which may sound from among the audience, and three officers give answer. Gradually, they move from straight testimony into fantastical imaginings of evil during a 'flashback' to the lighthouse. but then we snap back to the courtroom. In the main act the three singers become the vanished keepers. They have been together for months, long enough to be fully aware of each other's weaknesses. petty bickerings suggest a relationship which is stable, but liable to become highly unstable at any moment. They sing songs to reduce the tension, Blazes beginning with a rough ballad of street violence, accompanied by violin and banjo. Sandy's song, with cello and out-of-tune upright piano, is a thinly disguised description of sexual bliss, and Arthur's with brass and clarinet, is a tub-thumping hymn. But the songs serve only to resurrect in their minds ghosts from the past, and as the fog descends each of the keepers becomes convinced that he is being claimed by the Beast. They prepare to meet its dazzling eyes, which become the lights of the relief vessel, and the three men reappear as officers, met at the lighthouse only by an infestation of rats. They leave, and at the end the last hours of Blazes, Sandy and Arthur begin to play over again. Study Score. Duration c. 1h 25mins.

Vertaling

Kamer-opera in 'n proloog en een daad. A spook storie vertel van die geheimsinnige verdwyning van drie vuurtoring wagte in die Hebride. Dit is 'n raaisel storie in die vorm van 'n kamer-opera. Die proloog is ingestel as 'n hof van ondersoek na die onverklaarbare verdwyning van die drie drumpelwagters van 'n vuurtoring. Vrae word gestel deur 'n solo horing, wat mag klink uit die gehoor, en drie beamptes antwoord gee. Geleidelik, hulle beweeg van reguit getuienis in fantastiese verbeelding van die bose tydens 'n 'terugflits' na die vuurtoring. maar dan snap ons terug na die hofsaal. In die belangrikste daad die drie sangers, die vermiste wagte. Hulle het saam vir maande, lank genoeg om ten volle bewus van mekaar se swakhede. petty bickerings dui op 'n verhouding wat is stabiel, maar bloot aan hoogs onstabiel op enige oomblik word. Hulle sing liedjies om die spanning te verminder, brande wat begin met 'n rowwe ballade van die straat geweld, vergesel deur viool en banjo. Sandy se liedjie, met tjello en out-of-tune regop klavier, is 'n kwalik bedekte beskrywing van seksuele geluk en Arthur se met koper en klarinet, is 'n geklets gesang. Maar die liedjies dien net op te wek in hul gedagtes spoke van die verlede, en as die mis daal elk van die wagte daarvan oortuig dat hy geëis word deur die Beast. Hulle berei sy skitterende oë, wat geword het van die ligte van die verligting vaartuig te ontmoet, en die drie mans weer verskyn as beamptes, ontmoet by die vuurtoring slegs deur 'n besmetting van rotte. Hulle verlaat, en aan die einde van die laaste ure van brande, Sandy en Arthur begin speel weer. Zakpartituur. Duur c. 1h 25mins.