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Notes
‘I find myself increasingly occupied with matters of the human soul, its sublimation and spiritual abyss. Certainly my opera The Ocean Betrayed betrays this preoccupation. This music has been to Hades and back, with Monteverdi and myself.’ Hans-Werner Henze. Henze originated this storyline by following his fascination that he had of the work of the enfant terrible of post-war Japanese literature, Yukio Mishima (1925 - 1970), whose novel “Gogo no Eiko” forms the basis of the opera. This novel, like almost all of the author's creations, sketches a suffocating scenario of hopelessness in which the struggle for normality is doomed to failure. Henzes free-tonal score ties in with musically-dramatic principles of composition following the tradition of Richard Strauss. In symphonic interludes, the luxurious orchestra gives the eponymous hero a voice: the angry “betrayed sea.”
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Reviews
Winner of the Opera category for Recording of the Year 2022
Limelight magazine Recording of the Year 2022 - Opera Winner
“… Simone Young masterfully conducts the complex score; the Vienna Staatsoper orchestra, augmented for the occasion to vast late-Romantic proportions, is undoubtedly yet another star in this satisfying production.”
Andrew Timar – thewholenote.com – 20 May 2022
“… The vocal lines are compelling, and conductor Simone Young reveals both the work’s dense beauty and the sustained, gut-wrenching brutality of the final scenes…”
Alan Altman – American Record Guide – March/April 2022
Choc de Classica
Jérémie Bigorie – Classica magazine (France) – March 2022
“A beautifully presented version of a powerful opera.”
Stephen Barber MusicWeb-International.com – 14 February 2022
“… Simone Young’s conducting holds Henze’s beauty and brutality in perilous balance, and the orchestra’s playing is grandly opulent and delicately jewelled by turns. Capriccio’s natural recording … do Henze’s gorgeously cruel opera and its performers proud.”
Christopher Webber – Opera – March 2022
“… The roles are all very well cast … “ ****
Norbert Tischer – Pizzicato.lu – 1 November 2021
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