Harpsichorpheus   2002

Harpsichord opera with video, 3 actors and fire
made for Suite Muziekweek Amsterdam
Concept and image  Mendel Hardeman
Music  Louis Andriessen, Hanna Kulenty, Marzena Komsta, Jasna Veličković
Performed by  Gośka Isphording
duration  45'
Jasna Velickovic & Goska Isphording


  "An opera without singers, commenting on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Euridice. I wanted to turn the story around, or at least, the final conclusion which is usually presented..."       > read more


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Harpsichorpheus - cover picture

◊ Caress

◊ Kyrie Eleison

◊ EXODUS

◊ a Tree for Glenn Gould

◊ A Man with a Cross

◊ Via Crucis

◊ The Cup

◊ Epilogue to Orpheus

◊ Harpsichorpheus

◊ Sysif's Song

◊ Dark Blue Horizon

◊ Times and Tides

◊ Unholy Vessels

◊ INDICTUS

◊ HAP

◊ 7 short attempts to
    write a piece for violin

◊ Reveal thyself Alighieri

◊ Last days of a cross

◊ A Última Quimera

research
◊ the Singing Camera

collaborations
◊ Het Dierenparadijs

◊ Tattooed Tongues

◊ Slowly turning narrative

◊ Planecrash

◊ A View on Beauty
Mendel Hardeman archive 1999-2006
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