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FULL Eight Songs for a Mad King (Peter Maxwell Davies) Giessen 2006 Holger Falk
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Eight Songs for a Mad King
- Composer: Davies Peter Maxwell
- Libretto: Randolph Stow Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Theater Gießen, Germany
- Recorded: 2006
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Holger Falk
- Conductor: Björn Huestege
- Orchestra: Chamber ensemble of six instrumentalists
- Stage Director: Hans Walter Richter
- Stage Designer: Christian Schmidt
- Costume Designer: Christian Schmidt
Information about the Recording
- Published by: musikzeitgenosse
- Date Published: 2013
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Staged alongside another iconic Maxwell Davies monodrama, Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot
The role of the Mad King is notorious for its extreme physical and vocal demands. Written with a five-octave range, it requires the singer to shift rapidly between standard operatic singing, frantic Sprechgesang (spoken-singing), chords produced by the human voice, gutteral bass snarls, and falsetto screeching
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