composer
The composer Klas Torstensson has lived and worked most of his adult life in the Netherlands, but his music crosses borders – in all respects. Despite the abstract nature of ...
related works
Miniatures : for bass clarinet / Initiated and edited by Fie Schouten
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Clarinet
Scoring:
cl-b
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
Hans en Grietje : kinderopera, voor sopraan en ensemble, 2001 / Gerard Beljon
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr 1110 0000 2perc man g hp pf str
Amorys : Chamber opera in one act / music: Nico Richter; libretto: Hendrik Lindt
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr ten bar bas GK 1011 1000 perc pf 4vl 2vla vc cb dancers
composition
Expeditionen : Opera in 2 acts with a prologue, an intermezzo and an epilogue / Klas Torstensson
Other authors:
Torstensson, Klas
(librettist)
Description:
The Expedition tells the true story of three Swedish scientists who wanted to map the Arctic region by air balloon in 1897, but who made a forced landing only three days after their departure, finding their graves on a desert island in the Arctic Ocean after some harsh months, their last camp (corpses, drift-wood, sledges torn apart by ice-bears, rolls of film, rusty supplies, diaries...) only being discovered by sheer accident in 1930.