- General information
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Composition date:
1999 - 2000
- Duration: 1 h 50 mn
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
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Composition date:
1999 - 2000
- Type
- Vocal music and instrument(s) [3 solo voices or more, choir(s) and orchestra]
Detailed formation
- soloists: 1 solo soprano, 1 solo mezzo-soprano, 1 solo baritone, 1 solo countertenor
- 2 flutes (also 2 piccolos), 2 oboes (also 1 English horn), 2 clarinets (also 1 bass clarinet), 3 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 guitars [cordes en acier] , 3 trombones, 3 percussionists, 1 harp, 1 piano (also 2 celestas), 14 violins, 6 violas, 6 cellos, 4 double basses [nombre de cordes minimum]
Premiere information
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Date:
15 December 2000
Location:Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet
Performers:le Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, the London Voices, the Theater of Voices, La Maitrise de Paris et les solistes Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Willard White, direction : Kent Nagano, mise en scène : Peter Sellars.