Matthew Trevino, Rebecca Sjowall, Ryan MacPherson, Nashville Opera Orchestra & Dean Williamson - Michael Nyman: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (2016)

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Artist: Matthew Trevino, Rebecca Sjowall, Ryan MacPherson, Nashville Opera Orchestra & Dean Williamson
Title: Michael Nyman: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Naxos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, booklet)
Total Time: 58:08 min
Total Size: 337 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

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Michael Nyman:

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Scene 1: Prologue: Neurology's favorite term is deficit (Neurologist)
Scene 2: The First Examination: Traffic (Dr. P, Mrs. P, Neurologist)
Scene 2: The Shoe: Can I help? (Neurologist, Dr. P, Mrs. P)
Scene 2: The Slides: You can see very clearly (Neurologist, Dr. P, Mrs. P)
Scene 2: The River: What do you see now? (Neurologist, Dr. P, Mrs. P)
Scene 2: The Dressing Ritual: …Wife for a hat (Neurologist, Mrs. P, Dr. P)
Scene 3: The House Call: Bosendorfer! (Neurologist, Dr. P, Mrs. P)
Scene 3: Ich Grolle Nicht (Dr. P, Neurologist, Mrs. P)
Scene 3: The Solids: But what of the parietal regions (Neurologist, Mrs. P, Dr. P)
Scene 3: The Photographs: What is this? (Neurologist, Dr. P, Mrs. P)
Scene 3: The Rose: …Lost (Neurologist, Dr. P, Mrs. P)
Scene 3: The Glove: Now, what is this? (Neurologist, Dr. P, Mrs. P)
Scene 3: The Chess Game: Pawn to King 4 (Dr. P, Neurologist, Mrs. P)
Scene 4: Testing Visual Memory: The Street: From our end (Dr. P, Mrs. P, Neurologist)
Scene 5: Paintings As Pathlogy? An Argument: The Paintings: Your husband's a painter (Neurologist, Mrs. P, Dr. P)
Scene 6: The Prescription: The Wife: Tell me, how does he manage? (Neurologist, Mrs. P, Dr. P)
Scene 7: Epilogue: The Prognosis: I cannot tell you what is wrong (Neurologist, Mrs. P, Dr. P)

Michael Nyman’s one-act chamber opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat takes as its subject Dr P, a man suffering from visual agnosia, or ‘mental blindness’, and is adapted from the neurological study in the book of the same name by Oliver Sacks. For Nyman, Dr P ‘requires music as a lifeline, cue, clue, cure’, living as he does in a world lacking visual meaning. It is through his musical gifts that Dr P reclaims meaning from chaos, Nyman’s tautly conceived masterpiece providing a perfect medium through which the moving drama can be explored.

Dean Williamson has a versatile career in standard and contemporary repertoire, and is earning worldwide acclaim for his perceptive and commanding conducting. He currently serves as Music Director of Nashville Opera where select conducting credits include Hydrogen Jukebox, Florencia en el Amazonas, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, and Michael Nyman’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. The production of Le Comte Ory he conducted at Des Moines Metro Opera was nominated for an Emmy Award.

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