Mordake, by Erling Wold

Mordake

by Erling Wold

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1.	overture 04:56	buy track
2.	panthera leo 04:41	buy track
3.	supper, sir 02:39	buy track
4.	go get our supper 03:22	buy track
5.	what have you done? 04:10	buy track
6.	i'm no murderer 04:22	buy track
7.	doctor! doctor! 02:27	buy track
8.	once there was a boy (1) 02:10	buy track
9.	you killed me before 02:19	buy track
10.	you've never said that 06:20	buy track
11.	you say i take 03:24	buy track
12.	once there was a boy (2) 04:53	buy track
13.	i want to see him 05:20	buy track
14.	my sister, my love 06:35	buy track

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The opera tells the story of young Edvard Mordake, a man of high birth, secreted away in his apartments due to his disfigurement: a woman’s face on the back of his head, whose constant imprecations, heard by him alone, lead him on a terrifying course of action, one that may result in his own destruction. The librettist of the opera is the remarkable Douglas Kearney, a teacher of African American poetry, opera and myth at CalArts, well known for his recent performance work with Anne LeBaron. This recording follows Wold’s earlier release on MinMax, the critically acclaimed opera A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil.

“Mordake packs a multi-sensory punch inside a tightly knit production... If the story of Mordake is a tragic, eerie and at times wickedly funny rumination on the split in the human ego – the violent psychic struggle to reconcile the different parts of our own porous personality – we appreciate its universal tensions because it wraps us so completely in its subject’s deeply fraught isolation,” writes SF360. The San Francisco Chronicle rhapsodizes that “[Duykers] storms, he blusters, he bewails his fate – and, when necessary, he taps into reserves of sweetly tuned lyricism... a dynamic, affecting performance.”

Wold, an eclectic composer whose teachers include Gerard Grisey, Andrew Imbrie and John Chowning, has been hailed as “the Eric Satie of Berkeley surrealist/minimalist electro-art rock” by the Village Voice. His opera Queer, on the book by William Burroughs, will be in San Francisco and New York as part of the 25th anniversary of the publication of the book. His Missa Beati Notkeri Balbuli Sancti Galli Monachi was commissioned and premiered by the Abbey of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He has collaborated with electronic and noise musicians, filmmakers (Jon Jost) and dance companies, including interactive audio and video projects with Palindrome Dance, Nürnberg.

John Duykers, an internationally acclaimed tenor, has appeared with many leading opera companies, including The Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Seattle Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Netherlands Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and the Los Angeles Opera. Duykers most celebrated role was Mao Zedong in the 1987 world-premiere of John Adams’ Nixon in China, which was televised (winning an Emmy Award), and recorded (winning a Grammy Award).

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released June 1, 2010

Tenor John Duykers
additional vocals by Diana Pray, Antonio Scotti, Aristodemo Giorgini
San Francisco Composers Orchestra conducted by Mark Alburger
additional sounds by Thom Blum

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