FULL THE CRICKET RECOVERS (Richard Ayres) Amsterdam 2011 Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Bauwien van der Meer, Francine Vis

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Cricket Recovers  
• Composer: Ayres Richard  
• Libretto: Rozalie Hirs based on “De genezing van de krekel” van Toon Tellegen    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Compagnietheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Holland Festival  
• Recorded: June 19, 2011
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Bauwien van der Meer, Francine Vis, Els Mondelaers, Steven van Gils, Arnout Lems, Hugo Oliveira
• Conductor: Etienne Sibens  
• Orchestra: Asko|Schönberg Ensemble  
• Stage Director: Pierre Audi  
• Stage Designer: Jean Kalman  
• Costume Designer:   
• Lighting Designer: Jean Kalman  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Richard Ayres  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Unknown
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  A cricket with a depression and an elephant with an obsession, along with sixteen other characterful animals present themselves in Pierre Audi’s new staging of Richard Ayers successful modern opera The Cricket Recovers. The libretto by Rozalie Hirs is based on Dutch writer Toon Tellegen’s award winning novel The recovery of the cricket. Through eighteen short scenes we follow the story of the cricket who suddenly feels a sadness that does not want to go away; and the elephant who has an uncontrollable urge to climb trees, but keeps falling out of them. In Ayres’ effervescent cocktail of baroque gesture, late romantic rhetoric and dada-esque variety, the fantastic reality of these animals resonates as a moving, intelligent expression of the human condition.

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