La Monnaie: Dance Directors of La Monnaie, Directors of La Monnaie, La Monnaie World Premieres, the Death of Klinghoffer, Mark Mor
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ISBN10: 1158054262
ISBN13: 9781158054268
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781158054268
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Dance directors of La Monnaie, Directors of La Monnaie, La Monnaie world premieres, The Death of Klinghoffer, Mark Morris, Pierre van Maldere, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Fervaal, List of directors of the Theatre de la Monnaie, The Gambler, Sigurd, Herodiade, Mademoiselle Montansier, Ignaz Vitzthumb, Maurice Bejart, Charles Simon Favart, Gwendoline, Jocelyn, Gerard Mortier, D'Hannetaire, Jean-Baptiste Pitrot, Charles Bernardy, Oscar Stoumon, Salammbo, Le roi Arthus, Joseph Dupont, Alexandre Bultos, Louis-Jean Pin, Nicolo Grimaldi, Joseph Hansen, Gio Paolo Bombarda, Pierre-Antoine Gourgaud, Sophie Lothaire, Herman Bultos, Lucien Petipa, Henry Verdhurdt, Jean-Pierre-Paul Adam, Joseph Mazilier, Julie, Louis Compain. Excerpt: The Death of Klinghoffer is an American opera, with music by John Adams to an English-language libretto by Alice Goodman. First produced in Brussels and New York in 1991, the opera is based on the hijacking of the passenger liner Achille Lauro by the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985, and the resulting murder of Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer. The concept of the opera originated with theatre director Peter Sellars, who was a major collaborator, as was the choreographer Mark Morris. It was commissioned by five American and European opera companies, as well as the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The prologue to the opera consists of two choruses, the Chorus of Exiled Palestinians and the Chorus of Exiled Jews, each of which is a general reflection about the respective peoples and their history. Act I begins as the unnamed Captain of the Achille Lauro recalls the events of the hijacking. Prior to that, most of the passengers had disembarked in Egypt for a tour of the Pyramids, and the ship set out to sea to return later for the touring passengers. The hijackers had boarded during the disem...