Doyle: Heresy

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For the most part, it is an exercise in evoking character through atmosphere. Act 1 is marked by crepuscular hues lit up by glowing synthetic piano, shards of luminous voices in high registers... — Opera, June 2018 More…

Release Date: 18th Jan 2019
Catalogue No: HERESY021
Label: Heresy Records
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

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Doyle, R: Heresy, Act I

Work length58:43

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Roger Doyle, Morgan Crowley, Caitríona O'Leary, Aimee Banks, Daire Halpin
Recorded: 2016

Overture

Track length3:56

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The Throne Room of Henry III

Track length8:05

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Scenelink 1

Track length1:47

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There Are Countless Suns

Track length6:17

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Scenelink 2

Track length2:12

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The Divine Sopia

Track length9:03

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Scenelink 3

Track length2:32

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At the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Pt. 1

Track length2:33

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At the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Pt. 2

Track length2:59

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At the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Pt. 3

Track length3:58

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Scenelink 4

Track length2:37

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Entr'acte - Magic Memory

Track length12:44

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Doyle, R: Heresy, Act II

Work length1:08:47

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Roger Doyle, Morgan Crowley, Caitríona O'Leary
Recorded: 2016

Overture

Track length5:22

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Bruno - Belarmine

Track length7:47

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Scenelink 5

Track length1:53

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The Trial

Track length4:53

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I Have Nothing to Recant

Track length3:13

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Scenelink 6

Track length3:01

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The Cell - Hallucinations

Track length22:49

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A Material Universe

Track length4:04

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Death by Fire

Track length7:16

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Belarmine Coda

Track length8:29

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Irish composer, Roger Doyle’s first opera is based on the life and works of Giordano Bruno. Mystic magus, heretic priest, hermetic philosopher, spy and playwright, Giordano Bruno was one of the renaissance’s most brilliant and controversial men. Burned at the stake in 1600 - after a nine-year trial by the Roman inquisition - Bruno envisioned a cosmos without a centre, infinite galaxies and inhabited planets. His writings prefigured quantum theory by 350 years and his play Il Candelaio influenced numerous works by Shakespeare and Moliere.

Giordano Bruno is the ideal subject for opera. A cultural superstar in his own time, his importance and relevance has continued to grow over the centuries. Heresy is written for 5 high voices including male soprano, Robert Crowe and14-year-old wunderkind, Aimee Banks. Heresy begins with Bruno teaching his system of magic memory to Henry III of France and includes scenes with hisliterary inventions and feminine ideals, Circe and Sophia. Further scenes focus on episodes at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, his trial before the Inquisition- presided over by his nemesis, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine - an hallucinatory scene in his cell the night before he is burned at the stake where he is visited by himself as a young boy, Circe and Sophia and James Joyce (a lifelong admirer of Bruno’s), his death by fire and his apotheosis among the cosmos.

”Doyle’s electronic opera strongly implied that this work was no experiment, demonstrating the skilled and experienced hand of a composer who knows what he wants...at once hypnotic, fascinating and beautiful” - Das Opernglas

”There’s something satisfyingly haunting, hallucinogenic even, about it all, its baleful oddness lit up by moments of dark, brittle beauty.” - Opera

”Impressive singing from a versatile cast is supported by Doyle’s electronic score which is surprising affectingly tender and gentle.” **** The Irish Times

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June 2018

For the most part, it is an exercise in evoking character through atmosphere. Act 1 is marked by crepuscular hues lit up by glowing synthetic piano, shards of luminous voices in high registers and slender threads of lyrical light. Act 2, which is driven by rhythmic impetus, accented by insistent percussion and punctuated by melodic interludes and vocal passages of broken coloratura, carries itself with an altogether freer sense of invention.

Doyle: Heresy

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