| Product Number | 1.3335 |
|---|---|
| Composer/Arranger | Bergsma, William |
| Text Author | Lewis, Janet |
| Voicing & Instruments | Opera in Three Acts |
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| Popular Opera Searches | Duration: 90+ min, Full Length Opera |
| Duration | 135' |
| Reviews | Bergsma possesses what is possibly the rarest thing in American Music: a genuine lyrical gift of the utmost refinement. The sensitiveness of his line is extraordinary, as is the delicacy and clarity of his contrapuntal texture. He uses in his opera a small orchestra, skillfully manipulated to preserve a perfect clarity of line and color; yet the opera itself is not on a small scale. Bergsma ranges from unaffected gentleness to intense passion without descending to the commonplace or straining for "big" effects… [He] has style, intelligence, and imagination, and, in the way that only very good composers can, exploits his own strengths, which a cultivated and sophisticated critical mind has evidently enabled him to perceive… |
| Publisher | Galaxy Music Corporation |
Libretto:
Written by Janet Lewis
Synopsis:
Opera in 3 Acts. Set in the sixteenth century in the French Pyrenees, The Wife of Martin Guerre deals with the question of false identity.
Martin Guerre has left home because of an argument with his father and has taken service as a soldier. As the years pass, the memory of Martin becomes dim in his wife.