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Erwartung| Monodrama for soprano and orchestra by Arnold Schoenberg (libretto by Marie Pappenheim), composed in 1909 but first produced in Prague (Czech Republic) on 6 June 1924, conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky, with Marie Gutheil-Schoder. It describes a solitary woman searching through a wood for her lover; she finds his murdered body, which prompts an array of stark emotions. |
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| The solitary, unnamed woman of Schoenberg's fully atonal Erwartung, meanwhile, is in effect Kundry without a redeemer, her emotional hell delineated by a vocal line that directly quotes Wagner's antiheroine. Es kamen auch Nichtjuden in Frage, die im Judentum zu Hause waren und auch solche Menschen, die mit der judischen Religion zwar vertraut gewesen sind, in ihr aber--aus unterschiedlichsten Grunden--nicht die Erfullung ihrer religiosen Erwartung fanden, Suchende also, Enttauschte, Haretiker, Schwarmer und Randsiedler. There had also been noisy objections from some members of the German public at the Prague premieres of other contemporary German operas, such as Hundemith's trilogy Morder, Hoffnung der Frauen, Sancta Susanna and Das Nusch-Nuschi in March 1923, or the world premiere of Schonberg's monodrama Erwartung in June 1924. |
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