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Neither
Composer:Morton Feldman
Librettist:Samuel Beckett
Synopsis
Neither is the product of two like-minded visionaries focused on a single theme: the endless and often hopeless quest for understanding of the self and the universe, as carried out within the flash of a single life.

This dramatic work is filled with passages that evoke numerous visions, machines churning away in subterranean depths, interstellar spaces haunted by distant sirens, wheels within wheels grinding down time and space in slow revolutions. Feldman's music creates a strange sense of presence, of place, and the imagination often seeks to populate it with familiar images.

Although Neither is frequently called an opera, it bears more relation to a "monodrama" than any conventional opera, rather than relying on the unfolding of a story to provide a sense of drama, Neither draws its authority from escalating musical tension, cycling between Beckett's stanzas as it spirals toward its "unspeakable home."

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New York City OperaNeither3/3/2011 - 4/8/2011
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Approximate Runtime (hh:mm)
0:55

 Number of Acts
1

 Musical Style
Minimalist

 Vocal & Musical Forces
1 Soprano

 Original Cast
Kiera Duffy


 
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