Schneewittchen (opera)


Schneewittchen is an opera by Heinz Holliger. He wrote the libretto based on a poetic text by Robert Walser in iambic trimeter. The opera received its première on 17 October 1998 at the Zurich Opera House which had commissioned the work. The work is a psychoanalytical reworking of the fairy tale, analysing the complex relationships between the roles. It is not a :Category:Children's operas|children's opera.

Roles

Scenes

  1. Prologue
  2. Scene 1
  3. Interlude 1-2
  4. Scene 2, part 1
  5. Fughetta
  6. Scene 2, part 2
  7. Interlude 2-3
  8. Quasi Fuga
  9. Scene 3
  10. Interlude 3-4
  11. Scene 4
  12. Interlude 4-5
  13. Scene 5
  14. Epilogue