A Dog's Heart

Dat de vorderingen van de wetenschap lang niet altijd een zegen voor de mensheid zijn, blijkt wanneer de chirurg Filip Filipovitsj Preobrasjenski een menselijke hypofyse inplant in de hersens van de hond Sjarik. Het gemuteerde dier ontwikkelt zich tot de misdadiger Sjarikov, die niets en niemand ontziet. De enige oplossing is een tweede operatie...

Judging from his affinity for vocal music, it was just a question of time before the Russian avant garde composer Alexander Raskatov produced his first opera. With his choice of Mikhail Bulgakov's satiric novel 'Heart of a Dog' (1925) he follows in the footsteps of works by fellow Russians Shostakovich ('The Nose') and Schnittke ('Life with an Idiot'). In a score laden with fantasy and emotion, he tells the absurd tale of a professor who implants a human pituitary gland into a stray dog, which proceeds to become more and more human.

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Music

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• a dog's heart
• de nederlandse opera
• simon mcburney
• martyn brabbins
• sergei lefeirkus
• boelgakov
• michail boelgakov
• michael levine
• hondenhart
• hondehart
• schnittke
• raskatov
• alexander raskatov

[MPRTT2008]

One of the greatest Opera-Ideas in our Time. Bolhakovs comunismus-drama alegory perfect ilustrated by Alexander Raskatov, with great vocal fantasy, humor, sarcastical rhytmic, a lot of great orchestral colours and deep melancholy, musical dramaturgy on the higest level!. Thanks a lot and gratularions to Composer and all performers ! I wish it will be so famous like Bergs "Wozzeck" !

[daphneireneblomsma]

Gisteravond de première gezien, het was werkelijk adembenemend mooi!!!!

[porzt]

fantastic music!!! the ENO premiere was just amazing

[amvazas]

The most amazing idea ! Hollywood eat your heart out! Brilliant ! I wish I get a chance to actually see that play.

[starbooard]

I strongly impressed by this music. I read the original book of "A Dog's Heart" in my childhood and I remember still now. Here is something special integrating the original story and music. I feel so. Do you have a plan to broadcast this opera? I wish online broadcasting to access from abroad.

[DerekWilliamsMusic]

Brilliant!

[leedshunk]

english national opera are doing this november / december 2010

[TheZalams]

amazing!

[porzt]

The most exciting musical performance I've ever been to - absolutely genius!!!