related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice solo; Voice and piano; Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
voice solo ; voice pf ; voice perc pf ; voice vc ; 4voices
Styx : Opera (version 2016) / Chiel Meijering; tekst van Imme Dros, bewerkt door Joke Hoolboom
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
zang fl sax-a sax-t sax-bar h 3trp 3trb drum pf g-e-b
Oikos : schoolopera in twee bedrijven, 1980 / muziek: Andries Hubers, libretto : Bab Westerveld
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
4soloists 2GK4 3121 0310 timp 2perc (g-b ad lib.) pf str Orff-instr electronics
The pitch shifter / Christina Viola Oorebeek
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr sopr-m ten bar fl(pic fl-a) cl cl-b fg trp MIDI-keyb man hp 2perc 2vl vla vc cb el.
composition
Antigone : muziekdrama, naar een vrije bewerking van Sophocles door de componist / Ton de Leeuw
Other authors:
Leeuw, Ton de
(Text writer/Librettist)
Sophocles
(Text writer/Librettist)
Leeuw, Ton de
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Rather than an expressionistic approach, there is lucid, reserved intensity, sober vocal line with a nearly liturgical character, and - despite the apparent simplicity - strict modal cyclicity (as has been outlined for example in the doctoral thesis written by Dr R. de Groot: "Compositie en intentie van Ton de Leeuws muziek" [Composition and intention in the music of Ton de Leeuw], University of Amsterdam).
Rather than being set as a confrontation between individuals, three of the four roles are interpreted by choirs. The only soloist is Antigone but neither does her role dominate.
A stylised approach rather than realism. To give an example, in the dialogue between Antigone and Ismene, the characters sing their thoughts simultaneously rather than in alternation with each other. - TON DE LEEUW