Lang / Kudish / Rountree: Anatomy Theater
Lang / Kudish / Rountree: Anatomy Theater
Format: CD
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Artist: Lang / Kudish / Rountree
Label: Cantaloupe
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 713746315221
Genre: Classical Artists
Based on actual 18th-century texts, David Lang's anatomy theater follows the astonishing progression of an English murderess from confession to execution and, ultimately, public dissection before a paying audience of fascinated onlookers. Through the miracle of opera, she sings through it all. Composed by David Lang, with libretto co-written by Lang and scenic designer Mark Dion, anatomy theater a tuneful and grisly theatrical event that conjures a time when "specialists" traveled from town to town in pre-modern Europe, conducting public dissections of the corpses of executed criminals, seeking evidence of moral corruption in the interior of the human body. And as Lang himself warns in the liner notes, it's not for the squeamish - and that includes the performers: "No singers were harmed in the creation of this opera. It seems like an odd statement to make about an entertainment, but it is definitely appropriate to make it, since our piece is so full of terrifying things. Crime and punishment, execution, dissection, the thin line that separates moralistic cruelty from dispassionate scientific inquiry - they're all there."
Tracks:
1.1 Scene 1: I, Sarah Osborne, Having Slaughtered My Husband and Two Children (Sarah)
1.2 Dialogue: Justice Is Delivered! (Joshua)
1.3 Scene 2: Good Morrow and Welcome to You Young Gentlemen (Joshua)
1.4 Dialogue: Now, Gentlemen, My Fine, Young Honest Gentlemen (Joshua)
1.5 Scene 3: Man Seeks to Know the Truth, About Himself, How All His Parts Make Up His Whole (Baron)
1.6 Dialogue: Mr. Strang! (Baron)
1.7 Scene 4: Presently I Shall Reveal and Explicate the Instruments Necessary for Our Demonstration (Baron, Ambrose, Joshua)
1.8 Scene 5: The Instruments Commonly Required for a Practical Anatomy Are Fifteen in Number (Baron, Ambrose, Joshua)
1.9 Scene 6: Cut
1.10 Scene 7: Gentlemen, We Have Before Us a Fresh and Exemplary Body (Baron, Ambrose)
1.11 Scene 8: Clearly There Is Evil Here (Ambrose)
1.12 Scene 9: My Heart. My Heart (Sarah, Ambrose, Baron)
1.13 Scene 10: Gentlemen, We Have Yet Failed to Reveal (Baron, Joshua, Ambrose)
1.14 Scene 11: Where Is Evil? (Baron, Ambrose, Sarah, Joshua)
1.15 Scene 12: Too Bad the Doctor Didn't Find Anything Peculiar in This Woman (Joshua)
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