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A Dream Play on the Opera Stage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Inga Lewenhaupt
Inga Lewenhaupt
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Lecturer in theatre studies at Stockholm University
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On 15 September 1992 one of the most important new operas written in Scandinavia had its opening night at The Royal Opera House, Stockholm. The opera, based on Strindberg's A Dream Play, libretto and music by Ingvar Lidholm, was long awaited and surpassed the highest expectations. The score has a prelude and two acts, (duration two hours and twenty minutes, pause excluded) and requires a large orchestra, an extended percussion section, mixed chorus, children's chorus and fifteen roles.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 18 , supplementary S1 , March 1993 , pp. 42 - 49
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1993

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Notes

1. The premiere was conducted by Kjell Ingebretsen. (A studio recording on two CD:s has been made for Caprice Record, CAP 22029.) Direction was by Götz Friedrich from Deutsche Oper, Berlin (known in Stockholm for his stagings of Cosi fan tutte, Jenufa, Mastersingers in Nürnberg and Lohengrin) with scenographers Peter Sykora, also from Deutsche Oper (stage sets) and Kathrine Hysing from Den Norske Opera, Oslo (costumes).

2. Wallner, Bo, ‘Ingvar Lidholm, ett porträtt av tonsättaren’. A Dream Play, Program, The Royal Opera, Stockholm 1992, p. 18Google Scholar

3. Aare, Cecilia, ‘Bilden av en mänsklighet’. Tonfallet, No. 7, 1992.Google Scholar

4. ‘Ofixerade och flytande hägringar’, August Strindberg, ‘Open letters’ quoted in Gunnar Ollén, Strindbergs dramatik, 1961, p. 402.Google Scholar

5. Author's repeated interviews with the composer. Cf Aare (note 3) and Fazer Music News, No. 3, 1992.Google Scholar

6. Bergendal, Göran, ‘På tröskeln till Drömspelet — skärvor och samtal med Ingvar Lidholm’, På Operan, No. 1, 1992/1993.Google Scholar

7. ‘Röster från Strindbergs teater’, Svenska Röster 3, LP-record, ALB/Metronome, producer Inga Lewenhaupt (Åhlén), 1968.Google Scholar

8. Cf Ollén, Gunnar, Strindbergs dramatik, 1961, p 418–20.Google Scholar