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John's Earbox: the Music of John Adams The Death of Klinghoffer
The BBC Symphony Orchestra's annual
January Weekend at the Barbican Centre focuses this year on American composer John Adams. His opera The Death of Klinghofferwas conceived in partnership with poet Alice Goodman and stage director Peter Sellars , and draws its libretto from the hijacking of the cruise liner Achille
Laura in 1985. Presented byJohnTusa.
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Actl
8.15 Twenty Minutes
Andrew McGregortalks to John Adams.
8.35 Act 2
Controversial but timely opera: page 15

Contributors

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John Adams
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John Adams.
Unknown:
Alice Goodman
Director:
Peter Sellars
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Unknown:
Andrew McGregortalks
Unknown:
John Adams.
Leon Klinghoffer:
Sanford Sylvan (baritone)
Marilyn Klinghoffer:
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto)
Captain:
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
First Officer:
Dean Robinson (bass-Baritone)
Molqui:
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (tenor)
Mamoud:
William Dazeley (baritone)
Rambo:
Leigh Melrose (bass-Baritone)
Omar:
Andrew Watts (countertenor)
Swiss grandmother:
Yvonne Howard (mezzo)
Austrian woman:
Nuala Willis (mezzo)
British dancing girl:
Kirsten Blase (mezzo)
Source: Radio Times

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