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FULL The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Nyman) Klaipėda 2021 Gunta Gelgotė, Mindaugas Zimkus, Kšištof Bondarenko
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Composer: Nyman Michael
- Libretto: Christopher Rawlence, Michael Morris, Michael Nyman Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Klaipėda concert hall, Lithuania
- Recorded: September 15, 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Known throughout the world as a representative of British minimalism, composer of music for theatre and film, Nyman wrote this opera in 1986 to an English-language libretto by Christopher Rawlence, adapted from the case study of the same name by Oliver Sacks. The plot concerns the investigation by a neurologist of the condition of a singer who suffers from visual agnosia (‘mental blindness’). The main protagonist is aided by the music: it is through the sound and strains of music that he recognizes objects and places in the external world and can reclaim some meaning of it.