Music Theatre since 1990 - Schott Music
Music Theatre since 1990 - Schott Music
Music Theatre since 1990 - Schott Music
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Synopsis<br />
The opera opens with the maid La Poncia complaining about her tyrannical mistress, Bernarda,<br />
who is returning with her five daughters from the funeral of her second husband. She orders eight<br />
years of sorrow, during which her daughters have to live isolated from society. A young man,<br />
Pepe, wants to marry Angustias, Bernarda’s daughter from her first marriage. However,<br />
La Poncia has observed that Pepe not only visits his bride Angustias at her window but also<br />
Adela, the youngest of the five sisters. When Angustias realises that the picture of Pepe which she<br />
had kept under her pillow is missing, Bernarda orders a thorough search and the picture is finally<br />
found in Martirio’s room. The atmosphere in the house is unbearably tense. Martirio confesses<br />
that she is also in love with Pepe; she betrays Adela to Bernarda. Bernarda drives Pepe out of the<br />
barn, where he was waiting for Adela, with a rifle shot. At Bernarda’s command everybody in the<br />
house remains silent for ever.<br />
Bernarda Albas Haus<br />
30.10.2000 Bayerische Staatsoper München<br />
Aribert Reimann has fully succeeded in realising Lorca’s disturbing play as powerful music theatre,<br />
with a superlative score of unremitting clarity and force. This piece leaves no member of its<br />
audience unmoved. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 01.11.2000)<br />
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