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
Fortress Europe : Opera / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
voc ob perc hp vn vla vc db
Oresteia : opera in 3 acts, 1996, Act 1, Agamemnon / libretto after Aeschylos' Oresteia, Wim Laman
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr sopr-m ten bar bas MK4 2333 2sax 4231 4perc pf(synth) str(12.12.8.8.6.) tape
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr alt ten bar 1110 0000 (perc ad lib.) pf str (dancers ad lib.)
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.