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Philip Glass : Kepler


Commissioned by Landestheater Linz and Linz09
Work Notes Opera in two acts with prologue and epilogue.
Libretto (German, Latin) by Martina Winkel
Publisher
Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc
Category Opera and Music Theatre
Sub-Category
Opera
Year Composed 2009
Duration
1 Hour, 45 Minutes
Solo Instrument(s) 2S, Mz, T, Bar, B
Orchestration
2.pic.2(ca).2.cbcl(cl).2/4.3.3.1/5perc/cel.pn.hp/str
Languages German, Latin, English
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Programme Note

CAST
Kepler - baritone
Secondary (also Keplers) - 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass
chorus

SYNOPSIS
A portrait opera on the life of German mathmatician, astronomer, and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitomoe of Copernican Astronomy. These works provided the foundation for Newton's theory of universal gravitation

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