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La Plus Forte
Vocal scores and instrumental score and parts on hire
978-0-19-335708-2
11 January 2007
Price: Available on request
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for soprano and orchestra
This one act opera based on August Strindberg's play 'The Stronger', in a French translation by Georges Perros and Tage Aurell is scored for soprano soloist and orchestra and commissioned by Radio France for the 2007 Festival Presences. Forces or CategorySoprano soloist & orchestraDuration25 minutesDifficultyDifficultOrchestration3 fl (I&II+picc,
III+afl), 2 ob, ca, 2 cl, bcl, 2 bn, cbn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, tba, strProgramme NotesStrindberg wrote La Plus Forte (The Stronger) in December 1888 - January 1889, as part of the repertoire for his Experimental Theatre in Copenhagen. Like all his plays it is based on fact.
Since his marriage to the actress Siri von Essen he had had various flirtations with other women.The part of Madame X appears to be based mainly on his wife Siri, and that of Mademoiselle Y (Amelie, a non-speaking role) on the actress Helga Frankenfeldt, who Strindberg had given up seeing in 1882 after she had insulted Siri at a party.
In La Plus Forte a traumatic encounter between the two women takes
place in a cafe on Christmas Eve. Madame X, friendly and wary at the beginning, gradually becomes vulnerable and then violent as it dawns on her that Mademoiselle Y had possibly had an affair with her husband. To her horror she realises that this was why her husband had chosen the name Eskil for their son (it was Mademoiselle's Y's father's name) and had chosen for her certain colours, authors, food, drink, because these were the favourites of Mademoiselle Y. She feels possessed and is filled with loathing.But in the end she says that she is the stronger because she did not run away, she stayed, but that Mademoiselle Y is now alone, and bitter. "Thank you for teaching my husband to love! Now I am going home, to love him."
© Gerald Barry
Reproduced by permission of
Oxford University Press
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Gerald Barry (b.1952) Gerald Barry was born in Ireland in 1952 and studied composition with Stockhausen and Kagel. He first came to public attention in 1979 with his radical ensemble works __________ and 'Ø.
Barry's music has been performed at the Warsaw Autumn, Musik Triennale Köln, Musica Viva, Festival Présences, Huddersfield and St Denis Festivals, the ISCM and many others. His music has been recorded on the NMC, Largo, Black Box, Marco Polo and Challenge labels.More on Gerald Barry from The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland
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