Karlheinz Stockhausen - Evas Zauber (Eve's magic), Nr. 58 (1984-86)

Act 3 of the opera Montag aus Licht (Monday from Light)

Scored for basset-horn, alto flute with piccolo, choir, children's choir, modern orchestra (3 synth. players, 1 perc., tape)

Children's Choir of Radio Budapest (Janos Remenyi, choir master)
Zaans Kantatekoor (Jan Pasveer, choir master)

Coeur de Basset (basset horn) - Suzanne Stephens
Pied Piper (flute) - Kathinka Pasveer


Scene 1: Botschaft

'Message' has a series of four situations.

Scene 1a: Botschaft - Evas Spiegel - 0:00

Eve's Mirror; Eve, as Cœur de Basset, moves as in a dream over the fresh green lawn until she sees her reflection in the water-filled glassware. Fascinated by her mirror-image, she begins to play, as a male chorus appears and sings, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is fairest of them all?".

Scene 1b: Botschaft - Nachricht - 2:57

News; Women rush in and report the news that a musicus with magic powers has arrived.

Scene 1c: Botschaft - Susani - 4:52

The men sing to Eve, and the glass sculpture that mirrored Cœur de Basset bursts.

Scene 1d: Botschaft - Ave - 13:19

An alto-flute player dressed as a young man arrives. Eve and the flautist play a duet as the choir comments on their dialogue.

Scene 2: Der Kinderfänger - 26:35

In 'The Pied Piper' - originally titled Der Zauber (The Magic) - the musicus bewitches the children as Cœur, confused and disappointed, withdraws into the heart of the Eve statue. The adults, too, become frightened and shrink away against the walls and into the corners and watch as the Pied Piper enchants their children. It is a game of mimicry, in which the children try to imitate everything that the flute player demonstrates to them, accompanied by a rapid succession of sound-scenes from the real world. In the end, the Pied Piper dupes the children into removing their shoes and piling them up in a heap.

Scene 3: Entführung - 44:19

In the final scene, Abduction, the Pied Piper, now playing a piccolo, leads the singing children off in ordered procession into the skies. As their voices become higher and higher in pitch, the Eve statue is transformed into a mountain (the "Evaberg"), sprouting trees, bushes, animals, and streams. The children are seen as giant white birds, circling higher and higher into the skies. Just before the end, one child come back out on stage, looks at the audience in astonishment and shouts, "Are you still here?" He then goes to the pile of shoes, finds his own and puts them on, observing, "It is very dirty outside", and darts away, as the children-bird voices continue to be heard in the distance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montag_aus_Licht


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