Marnie_(opera)

<i>Marnie</i> (opera)

Marnie (opera)

Opera by Nico Muhly


Marnie is an opera by Nico Muhly to a libretto by Nicholas Wright based on the 1961 novel by Winston Graham.

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Performance history

The opera was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera of New York and was first performed in a co-production of the Met and the English National Opera.[1][2] The production design, which employed video projections, was by Julian Crouch and 59 Productions, the costumes, by Arianne Phillips, and the stage lighting, by Kevin Adams.[1][3][4][5] The opera premiered at the English National Opera in London on November 18, 2017, and at the Met in New York on October 19, 2018, both directed by Michael Mayer.[1][6] The New York performances, conducted by Robert Spano (in his Met debut), featured Isabel Leonard (Marnie), Christopher Maltman (Mark Rutland), Iestyn Davies (Terry Rutland), Anthony Dean Griffey (Mr Strutt), Denyce Graves (Marnie's Mother), Ashley Emerson (Laura Fleet), Stacey Tappan (Dawn), Marie Te Hapuku (Miss Fedder), and Ian Koziara (Derek).[6] The seventh and last performance of Marnie in the New York season was transmitted in high-definition video as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series.[7] It is now available for streaming at Met Opera on Demand with a subscription or rental fee,[8] but was provided free of charge on April 30 and November 24, 2020, and on June 28, 2021.[9][10][11]

Roles

In an interview during the Met Opera's 2018 Live in HD stream of the opera, Muhly said that he wrote the role of Marnie with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard in mind.[citation needed] She performed the title role in the opera's American premiere, at the Metropolitan Opera, but the role was performed by Sasha Cooke in the world premiere.

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References

  1. "Marnie". ENO. 2017. Archived from the original on September 4, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  2. Production details, English National Opera
  3. Park, Elena (October 17, 2018). "Nico Muhly and Michael Mayer Make Marnie Sing at the Met". Playbill. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
  4. Driscoll, F. Paul (January 2019). "Marnie New York City, The Metropolitan Opera, 10/19/18". Opera News. Vol. 8, no. 7. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  5. Marnie, October 19, 2019 (premiere), Metropolitan Opera Archive.
  6. Marnie, November 10, 2019 (last night), Metropolitan Opera Archive.
  7. Marnie at Met Opera on Demand.
  8. "Week 7". www.metopera.org. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  9. "Nightly Met Opera Streams". www.metopera.org. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  10. "Weekly Guide:June 28-July 4". www.metopera.org. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
  11. Boussaert, Yannick (November 18, 2017). "Elina Makropoulos chez Hitchcock: Marnie - Londres (ENO)". Forumopera.com Le magazine du monde lyrique (in French).

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