Research Catalog

Title

Les larmes du couteau [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Publication

2002.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Martinů, Bohuslav, 1890-1959.
• Mobbs, Daniel
• Regal, Tiffany
• Winkler, Kristine
• Schag, Shane
• Schimmel, William
• Goren, Neal
• Caws, Mary Ann
• Canty, Ned
• Lieberman, Andrew
• Cronson, Mary Sharp
• Henry Street Chamber Opera
• Henry Street Settlement (New York, N.Y.)
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (90 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This program features a panel discussion about Henry Street Chamber Opera's production of Bohuslav Martinů's one-act 1928 Dadaist opera Les larmes du couteau, preceded by performance excerpts from the piece and a lecture and slide presentation on Dadaism by cultural historian Mary Ann Caws. Caws provides background on the Dadaist movement of the 1910s and 1920s, discussing such key figures as Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Huelsenbeck, George Grosz, Kurt Schwitters, and Hans Arp, and emphasizing the more joyous, playful aspects of the movement. The panelists discuss the difficulty of recreating the spontaneous, chaotic spirit of Dada in an operatic production, and how they met the challenges posed by Martinů's often unreproduceable stage directions. The program ends with a performance of the complete opera.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 196

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subjects

• Martinů, Bohuslav, 1890-1959 > Larmes du couteau
• Opera > 20th century
• Dadaism
• Music
• Video

Genre/Form

• Video.
• Music.

Event (note)

• Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Oct. 27 and 28, 2002. (Viewer copy is Oct. 27, 2002.)

Funding (note)

• With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Biography (note)

• Les larmes du couteau was performed with another Martinů opera, Hlas lesa, in Nov. 2002 at Henry Street Settlement's Abron Arts Center on New York's Lower East Side.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1199

OCLC

85893705

Title

Les larmes du couteau [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

2002.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 196

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Performer

Opera sung by Daniel Mobbs (Satan), Tiffany Regal (Mother), and Kristine Winkler (Eleonora). Pianist: Shane Schag. Accordion: William Schimmel. Conductor: Neal Goren. Speaker: Mary Ann Caws. Panelists: Ned Canty, stage director ; and Andrew Lieberman, scenic designer. Moderator: Neal Goren.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Oct. 27 and 28, 2002. (Viewer copy is Oct. 27, 2002.)

Funding

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Biography

Les larmes du couteau was performed with another Martinů opera, Hlas lesa, in Nov. 2002 at Henry Street Settlement's Abron Arts Center on New York's Lower East Side.

Added Author

Martinů, Bohuslav, 1890-1959. Larmes du couteau.

Mobbs, Daniel. voc

Regal, Tiffany. voc

Winkler, Kristine. voc

Schag, Shane. Instrumentalist

Schimmel, William, instrumentalist.

Goren, Neal. Conductor

Caws, Mary Ann. Speaker

Canty, Ned. Interviewee

Lieberman, Andrew. Interviewee

Goren, Neal. Moderator

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Henry Street Chamber Opera.

Henry Street Settlement (New York, N.Y.)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1199