Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain

Jonathan von Schwanenflügel (tenor), Per Bach Nissen (bass), Signe Sneh Durholm (soprano), Elenor Wiman (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Storm (baritone), Maria Dreisig (soprano), Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass-baritone)

Athelas Sinfonietta, Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

As the psychosexual crisis deepens, Jonathan von Schwanenf lügel proves vocally supple as the conflicted student, supported by a committed cast and 11-piece Athelas Sinfonietta under Eirik Haukaas... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 3rd Feb 2023
Catalogue No: BIS2596
Label: BIS
Length: 68 minutes

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain

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Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

Opening

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act I, Scene 1

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Jonathan von Schwanenflügel
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

What Is It She Wants to Tell Me?

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act I, Scene 2

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Jonathan von Schwanenflügel, Per Bach Nissen, Signe Sneh Durholm, Elenor Wiman
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

One of the Pleasures of Le Havre

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act I, Scene 3

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Jonathan von Schwanenflügel, Thomas Storm, Maria Dreisig
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

Giselle! You've Sat There for an Hour

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act I, Scene 4

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Jonathan von Schwanenflügel
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

No Woman I Have Ever Seen

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act II, Scene 1

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Jonathan von Schwanenflügel, Signe Sneh Durholm, Elenor Wiman, Jakob Bloch Jespersen
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

Mehrdad, I Call you Beloved

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act II, Scene 2

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Jonathan von Schwanenflügel, Maria Dreisig, Signe Sneh Durholm, Elenor Wiman
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

Now It Is Winter

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act II, Scene 3

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Signe Sneh Durholm, Elenor Wiman
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

Bita, My Dear, Come

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act II, Scene 4

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Jonathan von Schwanenflügel, Signe Sneh Durholm
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

Bita

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act II, Scene 5

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Jonathan von Schwanenflügel, Jakob Bloch Jespersen
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

Ay, This Weather

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act II, Scene 6

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Signe Sneh Durholm
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

Is This My Rival?

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act II, Scene 7

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Jonathan von Schwanenflügel, Per Bach Nissen, Thomas Storm, Maria Dreisig, Elenor Wiman, Jakob Bloch Jespersen
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

Every City Has Its Secrets

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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain, Act II, Scene 8

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Jonathan von Schwanenflügel, Per Bach Nissen, Thomas Storm, Maria Dreisig, Signe Sneh Durholm, Elenor Wiman, Jakob Bloch Jespersen
Athelas Sinfonietta
Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard

Another Night in the Vortex

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"Based on the short story by the same name by Sadeq Hedayat (1903–51), Iran’s first modernist writer, The Doll behind the Curtain is an opera from Iranian-Danish composer Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour and librettist Dominic Power. It explores themes of alienation, the mysteries of human sexuality and the dissonance, both musical and cultural, between East and West and tradition and modernity. Set in Le Havre and Tehran during the 1930s, the opera tells the story of Mehrdad, a shy Iranian student studying in the French harbour city. After having found a mannequin in a junk shop, he becomes obsessed with its flawless and unchanging beauty and brings it back home to Tehran. His infatuation and inner conflict cause him to destroy his own life and that of his fiancée Bita, struggling to compete with her silent rival. An original and challenging work of musical theatre, The Doll behind the Curtain was composed in 2015 and is Tafreshipour’s first opera as well as the first Iranian opera with an English libretto. It was premièred in London in 2015 and is here heard in a recording by the team that also performed it at the Royal Danish Opera in 2020."

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April 2023

As the psychosexual crisis deepens, Jonathan von Schwanenf lügel proves vocally supple as the conflicted student, supported by a committed cast and 11-piece Athelas Sinfonietta under Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard.

April 2023

The score for seven singers and 11-strong ensemble is disciplined and dense, beginning with a stringent and compact overture of just a minute in which the cast appear briefly as a chorus...Character and concept are drawn with similar clarity.

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