Michael Nyman Facing Goya: An Opera In Four Acts (3CD, Album, Reissue, Promo, Sampler)

Фірмовий CD-дискFacing Goya (2000) is an opera in four acts by Michael Nyman on a libretto by Victoria Hardie. It is an expansion of their one-act opera called Vital Statistics from 1987, dealing with such subjects as physiognomy, eugenics, and its practitioners, and also incorporates a musical motif from Nyman's art song, "The Kiss", inspired by a Paul Richards painting. Nyman also considers the work thematically tied to his other works, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The Ogre, and Gattaca, though he does not quote any of these musically, save a very brief passage of the latter. It was premiered at the Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain on 3 August 2000. The revision with the cast heard on the album premiered at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Germany, on October 19, 2002. Vital Statistics has been withdrawn. The Santiago version included more material from Vital Statistics. The opera was most recently performed at the 2014 Spoleto Festival USA, located in Charleston, South Carolina. ACT 11-1Prelude/Dogs Drowning In Sand6:321-2How Do I Know You Know3:411-3Lavater5:561-4Leonardo Says3:211-5The Size Of The Brain9:311-6Weigh The Brain4:39ACT 21-7The Theory Of Proportions3:561-8Stand Up And Be Counted2:441-9Measure My Body5:081-10Galton3:211-11Goya's Snub Nose5:261-12Lombroso8:011-13And Goya Cried8:29ACT 32-1Where Is Goya?4:132-2The Sequence Of The Gene2:572-3A Man Impaled3:302-4The Risky Gene3:412-5Mutation3:012-6Brilliant Body1:502-7Take Its DNA3:592-8Give Me Goya's Skull3:522-9Tortured Prisoner2:56ACT 42-10That Day Decided8:492-11We've Cracked The Genome5:592-12I Wanted Rid Of It1:592-13And Cloning Is Here To Stay3:412-14How Can You Be So Stupid6:542-15Forgive Me4:21Man And Boy: Dada / Love Counts (Promo CD)Man And Boy: Dada - Act Two3-1Scene 10 - A Famous Cup Of British Tea6:293-2Scene 11 - "This Was A Good One - Ponders End To Waterloo4:223-3Scene 12 - I'm Highly Adept At The Tango6:513-4Scene 13 - Show Me A Bike!3:39Love Counts - Act Two3-5Scene 8 - "They Say Nothing Is Secret"6:223-6Scene 9 - "forty Seven", "Sixty Three"4:283-7Scene 10 - "It's For You. Why Is It For You?"5:063-8Scene 11 - "now In Hebrew Mathematical Art"5:39