First performance 17 October 1998 Librettist Heinz Holliger | Composer Heinz Holliger | |
Schneewittchen is an opera by Heinz Holliger. He wrote the libretto based on a poetic text by Robert Walser in iambic trimeter. The opera received its première on 17 October 1998 at the Zurich Opera House which had commissioned the work. The work is a psychoanalytical reworking of the fairy tale, analysing the complex relationships between the roles. It is not a children's opera.
Scenes
- Prologue
- Scene 1
- Interlude 1-2 (Invention)
- Scene 2, part 1
- Fughetta (In Nomine Fluminis)
- Scene 2, part 2
- Interlude 2-3
- Quasi Fuga
- Scene 3
- Interlude 3-4
- Scene 4
- Interlude 4-5
- Scene 5
- Epilogue (Choral variations)
References
Schneewittchen (opera) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA