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Picker: Therese Raquin

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From: Opera News
Date: 20021101
Author:Rosenblum, Joshua

Tobias Picker creates a maximum-impact drama based on Emile Zola's novel of passion gone wrong.

PICKER: Therese Raquin

* Fulgoni, Soviero, Woods; Bernstein, Gietz, Kazaras, Andrasy, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Jenkins. English text and translations. Chandos, CHAN 9659 (2)

As composer Tobias Picker writes, Emile Zola's novel Therese Raquin "exudes 'opera' from every page," and indeed, it has inspired Picker to compose a marvelously effective new work. Picker has a sure command of, in his words, "the language [he] discovered in the space between tonal and non-tonal worlds." He, of course, is not ...

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