Erwartung

  • A woman ( teen dramatic soprano )

Expectation is a musical monodrama in one act by Arnold Schoenberg. It is his first work, which he composed for the stage. The libretto by Marie Pappenheim. Although Schoenberg had already completed his composition on 12 September 1909, the first performance was only about 15 years later, on June 6, 1924 at the New German Theatre in Prague as part of the Music Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music of under the direction of Alexander Zemlinsky instead.

Orchestra

Piccolo, three flutes, three oboes, English horn (also 4 oboe), clarinet in D, clarinet, two clarinets in A, bass clarinet in B flat, three bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (cymbals, bass drum, snare drum, tam-tam, ratchet, triangle ), harp, celesta, glockenspiel, xylophone, strings

Action

It is night. The picture shows three ways in the moonlight, surrounded by tall, dense trees. We see a young woman desperately searching for her lover wanders through the forest. They lived through all the emotional feelings; Fear and Hope correspond with one another in rapid succession. When she pushes with his foot on a corpse, it must be horrified to find that it is the her lover.

Music

Although Schoenberg has his musical roots in the late Romantic period and his work still requires originating from this period giant orchestra, he pushes so far on goal in the expressionist modernism. The tonality is dissolved; a binding root no longer exists.

Media

  • Arnold Schoenberg: expectation ( and Chamber Symphony No. 1), Simon Rattle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra EMI 5 55212
  • Arnold Schoenberg: expectation ( and Pelleas and Melisande ) Robert Craft, Anja Silja, soprano, Philharmonia Orchestra, Naxos 8.557527

Productions

  • Thomas Bischoff staged in 2009 at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the woman sung by Russian soprano Elena Nebera
  • March 7, 2010 to Hamburg State Opera, Conductor: Simone Young, The woman: Deborah Polaski
  • March 2011: Cologne Philharmonic, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, conducted by Jukka -Pekka Saraste, The wife Jeanne- Michèle Charbonnet
The State Opera (Prague) Alexander von Zemlinsky Naxos Records Jukka-Pekka Saraste Siegfried Mauser Integrated Authority File
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