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
Elliott loves bebop : for two instrumental quartets / Klas Torstensson
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
sax-a trb gtr perc vln vc pf perc
Frans Hals : opus 39, 1946-1949, opera in 3 bedrijven = Oper in 3 Akten / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
9soloists GK4 2222 2231 timp perc hp str on stage: fl vl vla cb
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
9soloists GK4 3333 sax-a 3331 timp perc cel str
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
5soloists 1111 1000 perc cemb 2vl vla vc cb actors acrobats
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.