Schneewittchen (opera)

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Schneewittchen
Opera by Heinz Holliger
The composer in 2008
Librettist	Holliger
Based on	poetry by Robert Walser
Premiere	17 October 1998 (1998-10-17) Zurich Opera House

Schneewittchen (Snow White) is an opera by Heinz Holliger. He wrote the libretto based on a poetic text by Robert Walser in iambic trimeter. The opera received its première on 17 October 1998 at the Zurich Opera House which had commissioned the work. The work is a psychoanalytical reworking of the fairy tale, analysing the complex relationships between the roles. It is not a children's opera.

Roles[]

Scenes[]

1. Prologue
2. Scene 1
3. Interlude 1-2 (Invention)
4. Scene 2, part 1
5. Fughetta (In Nomine Fluminis)
6. Scene 2, part 2
7. Interlude 2-3
8. Quasi Fuga
9. Scene 3
10. Interlude 3-4
11. Scene 4
12. Interlude 4-5
13. Scene 5
14. Epilogue (Choral variations)

External links[]

• Performance details (orchestration, roles, etc.)
• Review of a concert performance, Vienna, 25-Nov-2002 (in German)
• (in German) Schneewittchen Ballett

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