User:Georgery Kempe/Into The Little Hill

Into the Little Hill is a 2006 chamber opera by George Benjamin. Its libretto is by Martin Crimp. The score is published by Faber Music.

Synopsis
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/arts/music/25benj.html https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/how-the-composer-george-benjamin-finally-found-his-voice https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/nov/25/classicalmusicandopera1 https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/NI5828.pdf https://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/into-little-hill https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/3672795/Into-the-Little-Hill-unmoved-by-Liverpools-highbrow-offering.html https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/benjamin-into-the-little-hill https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2017/11/Recordings/BENJAMIN__Into_the_Little_Hill/Dream_of_the_Song.html https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/george-benjamin-into-the-little-hill-the-sunday-times-review-dsnqgg9cktx

Roles
All of the characters are performed by two singers: one soprano and one alto.

In order of appearance, these are:

Instrumentation

 * bfl(=fl+picc)
 * 2 basset hn in F
 * cbcl


 * 2 crts
 * tenor trbn


 * cimbalom
 * (=perc(1)): cyms/guiro/whip/2 crot


 * 2 vln(II=mandolin)
 * 2 vla(II=banjo)
 * 2 vlc
 * db(lowest string tuned to C)