Opera in two actsAfter Franz Kafka's "Ein Landarzt" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum".
Roles:
Prisoner - baritone
Country doctor and the 7th white candle - bass
Julia, Baucis, the sister, Rosa Luxemburg II, the 1st white candle - soprano
Rosa, the mother, Rosa Luxemburg III, the 2nd white candle - mezzo-soprano
Romeo, Philemon, the ill boy, the 4th white candle - counter tenor
Horsehand, the old one, the 5th white candle - tenor
Enthusiast, the 6th white candle - actors
Choir: 5.5.5.4 "choir of the family/neighbourhood of the ill boy", "the judge's choir", "the rat's choir"
Score: 2.1.2.1.sx/2.2.2.1/3perc/hp.pf.acn.cel/4.2.2.1
8 musical statistics: 5vc, 3db
Duration: 2h 30' 00"
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