The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama

The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (1999)

"Rosa", with a libretto by Peter Greenaway and score by Louis Andriessen, is the first in a projected series of 10 operas, each dealing with the death of a famous composer - some real, others fictional. "Rosa" falls into the latter category; it tells the story of Juan Manuel de Rosa, a Brazilian who went to study music in America but spent most of his time in the cinema instead, becoming particularly entranced by Westerns. Now 32 years old and residing in an abandoned Uruguayan slaughterhouse, Rosa has become one of Hollywood's foremost composers, specialising in Westerns. He also has a beautiful 19-year-old fiancee, Esmeralda, but he pays her little heed, instead lavishing his attentions on a black mare named Bola. One day, a group of men attired as cowboys arrive at the abattoir and kill both Rosa and Bola; an investigation is conducted, with particular suspicion!

Erscheinungsdatum
1999-09-04
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (4)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 30 Min.
Genres
TV-Film, Drama, Musik, Western
Regie
Peter Greenaway

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Rosa, A Horse Drama also called Rosa – The Death of a Composer is an opera in 12 scenes by Dutch composer, Louis Andriessen with a libretto by English film maker Peter Greenaway. The libretto was the sixth in Greenaway's Death of a Composer series which explores the deaths of ten 20th-century composers, two real, and the remaining eight fictional. It premiered at the Dutch National Opera on 2 November 1994 in a production co-directed by Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke. A recording of the opera was released on the Nonesuch label in 1998; Asko/Schönberg, conductor Reinbert de Leeuw.

Production

Christopher Gillett recalled that Peter Greenaway wanted him and Roger Smeets to have real sex with Marie Angel in the horse scene, to that extent the mare was anatomically correct, with a cavity through which the two tenors could penetrate the soprano who was inside. But Marie Angel objected, saying: "Well, no-one is sticking anything in!".

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