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Erwartung

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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 visual poetry of Schoenberg's opera Erwartung is represented through a Freudian, expressionist scene set in a noirish forest, in which a young woman, dressed in night-clothes, runs through a nightmarish scene.
In 1995 she had presented the same score in its orchestral version and with a larger ensemble on a double bill with Erwartung at the Monnaie.
 
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