Man and Boy: Dada – an opera in two acts Love Counts – an opera in two acts MNRCD203 |
NYMAN - OPERA (4CD box set) MNRCD101-2 Man and Boy: Dada – an opera in two acts MNRCD111-2 Love Counts – an opera in two acts 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 full 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. LOVE COUNTS An Opera in two acts composed by Michael Nyman Libretto: Michael Hastings The generously packaged, slip cased 2-CD set contains a full colour 44-page booklet with complete libretto. Love Counts is a love story between the unlikeliest of couples: Avril, a lecturer in mathematics at a major college who has divorced a man who physically abused her, and Patsy, a middle-weight fighter at the end of his career who cannot read or recognise numbers. |
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