Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Composed and conducted by OLIVER KNUSSEN
Libretto and Designs by MAURICE SENDAKMax: Karen Beardsley
Mama: Mary King
Wild Things
Tzippy: Mary King
Moishe: Hugh Hetherington
Bruno: Jeremy Munro
Emile: Stephen Rhys-Williams
Bernard: Andrew Gallacher
Goat: Hugh Hetherington London Sinfonietta
Recorded at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in August 1985 SYNOPSIS Max, a small boy in a white wolf suit is playing in the hallway outside his room, stalking his toy soldiers, ambushing his teddy bear from his jungle tent cloth strung up across the hall and being thoroughly, happily naughty! As he lies on the floor pretending to be dead, he is frightened by the shadow of something making strange noises. It turns out to be his Mama and her wheezy old vacuum cleaner. She scolds Max but he continues to be naughty and defy her and is sent to bed without his supper. He sulks and begins to think of terrible revenge. His room begins to change and all about him a forest grows. A little sail-boat appears and Max climbs in. He is alone at sea moving through days and nights and in and out of weeks until, as dawn approaches, a huge sea-monster rears up from the water but sinks slowly down again at Max s command. An island comes into view with palm trees, a plateau and a large cave. As Max moors his boat he hears distant rumbling noises. The Wild Things hurtle out of the cave shouting rude things at Max and making wicked fun of him. Though they seem comical, things could get out of hand at any moment. Max has had enough of their antics and noise. He howls at them and then stares into their yellow eyes, silencing and controlling them. Max tries to take stock of his surroundings, but every time, a Wild Thing steals up on him, only to be frozen back into submission with his magic stare...... Higglety Pigglety Pop! Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Composed and conducted by OLIVER KNUSSEN
Libretto and Designs by MAURICE SENDAK
Jennie, a Sealyham Terrier: Cynthia Buchan
The Potted Plant / Baby / Mother Goose: Deborah Rees
Pig In Sandwich Board / Low Voice of Ash Tree: Andrew Gallacher
Cat Milkman / High Voice of Ash Tree: Neil Jenkins
Rhoda, A Parlourmaid / Voice of Baby's Mother: Rosemary Hardy
Lion: Stephen Richardson
London Sinfonietta
Recorded at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in August 1985 Jennie, a Sealyham Terrier, is sitting by a landing window in her house. A Potted Plant is on the window sill. Jennie is discontented with her lot. Even though she has all she could want, she thinks there must be more to life than having everything. The singing plant suggests reasons why Jennie should stay, and is rewarded by being devoured, leaf by leaf. Jennie sets off, to find something more than everything, taking all her possessions with her in a black bag. In a city street at night, she meets a Pig in Sandwich-Boards who asks her what she wants in life, while dispensing free sandwiches. He tells her about the Mother Goose World Theatre who need a leading lady but with experience. Jennie wants desperately to be that leading lady but doesn't know what experience is although, as always, she has food on her mind and thinks it could be something good to eat! A milk wagon comes into view and a Cat-Milkman gets down. The Cat tells Jennie about the Big White House outside the town where he is sure she is going to be the new nurse for Baby. All the previous nurses failed to make Baby eat and disappeared. Apparently, they were fed to a Lion locked in the cellar of the Big White House. Jennie who cannot believe that anyone would not want to eat, determines that she will succeed where the others have failed. The Cat offers to give Jennie a lift in the wagon (which she has now emptied) and off they go..... |
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