monodrama
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Sellars had long proposed the curious combining of Schoenberg’s “Erwartung,” a violently expressionist monodrama for soprano and large orchestra, with the last movement, “Abschied,” of Mahler’s song-symphony “Das Lied von der Erde.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025
The newly commissioned work that followed was Kate Soper’s “Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus,” a sensationally witty and profound monodrama about the meaning of music for amplified soprano and large orchestra.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025
The one-act monodrama by composer Tom Cipullo is based on the life of the legendary singer and dancer Josephine Baker.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022
Plenty of Schoenberg’s scores received hearings; difficulties rehearsing the monodrama “Erwartung” led Mitropoulos to ask Katsoyanis whether his compulsion for “distorted and screwy beauty” was just an “egotistical occupation” with “the pleasure of self-destruction.”
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022
"Or simply a monodrama depending on one man."
From The Jew by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
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