anatomy theater, by David Lang & Mark Dion

anatomy theater

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1.	Scene 1: The Confession of Sarah Osborne 09:29	buy track
2.	Justice is Delivered 03:12	buy track
3.	Scene 2: Good Morrow and Welcome 04:54	buy track
4.	Now, Gentlemen! 01:53	buy track
5.	Scene 3: Man Seeks to Know 01:52	buy track
6.	Mr. Strang! 00:03	buy track
7.	Scene 4: Presently, I Shall Reveal 04:46	buy track
8.	Scene 5: The Instruments Commonly Required 05:44	buy track
9.	Scene 6: Cut (instrumental) 02:10	buy track
10.	Scene 7: Gentlemen, We Have Before Us 07:46	buy track
11.	Scene 8: Clearly/Some Very Strange Light 03:21	buy track
12.	Scene 9: My Heart 04:19	buy track
13.	Scene 10: Gentlemen, We Have Yet Failed 03:28	buy track
14.	Scene 11: Where is Evil? (Reprise) 03:19	buy track
15.	Scene 12: Too Bad the Doctor 02:34	buy track

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Based on actual 18th-century texts, David Lang’s anatomy theater follows the astonishing progression of an English murderess from confession to execution and, ultimately, public dissection before a paying audience of fascinated onlookers. Through the miracle of opera, she sings through it all.

Composed by David Lang, with libretto co-written by Lang and scenic designer Mark Dion, anatomy theater is a tuneful and grisly theatrical event that conjures a time when “specialists” traveled from town to town in pre-modern Europe, conducting public dissections of the corpses of executed criminals, seeking evidence of moral corruption in the interior of the human body. And as Lang himself warns in the liner notes, it’s not for the squeamish — and that includes the performers:

“No singers were harmed in the creation of this opera. It seems like an odd statement to make about an entertainment, but it is definitely appropriate to make it, since our piece is so full of terrifying things. Crime and punishment, execution, dissection, the thin line that separates moralistic cruelty from dispassionate scientific inquiry — they’re all there.”

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released October 25, 2019

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Marc Kudisch
Robert Osbourne
Peabody Southwell
Timur

International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Conducted by Christopher Rountree

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