FULL In A Grove (Cerrone) Pittsburgh 2022 Gray Liu Turner Ehlinger

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: In A Grove   
• Composer: Cerrone Christopher   
• Libretto: Stephanie Fleischmann, based on the short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Pittsburgh Opera, Pennsylvania  
• Recorded: 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Yazid Gray, Chuanyuan Liu, Andrew Turner, Madeline Ehlinger
• Conductor: Antony Walker  
• Orchestra: PITTSBURGH OPERA ORCHESTRA  
• Stage Director: Mary Birnbaum  
• Stage Designer: Mimi Lien  
• Costume Designer: Oana Botez  
• Lighting Designer: Yuki Nakase  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Pittsburgh Opera  
• Date Published: 2022  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  A silent, expectant grove. A violent encounter between a man, a woman, and a notorious brigand.

  Seven testimonies, each proposing a different perspective on the crime. Akutagawa’s classic short story “In a Grove,” which inspired the plot of Kurosawa’s renowned film Rashomon, offers a searing investigation into the impossibility and elusiveness of truth.

  Epic and intimate, timeless and devastatingly timely, the story’s structure lends itself powerfully to music’s ability to conjure—via repetition and variation—how human perception, memory, and desire are fallible, imprecise, and subject to interference.

  Join us for this unique world-premiere experience in a place where the ground shifts beneath your feet—a space of ambiguity and clarity, of beauty and menace, and of fragility and strength.

  CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS
  Prelude (0:00)
  The Woodcutter (2:10)
  The Priest (4:45)
  The Mother & the Policeman (7:31)
  Interlude (12:11)
  The Outlaw (13:50)
  Interlude (24:45)
  The Missing Woman (26:46)
  The Murdered Man, Channeled by a Medium (41:50)

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