
Toda una sorpresa ha sido el descubrir esta ópera, descubrimiento que tengo que agradecer a Zelenka y su impagable hilo dedicada a
La otra ópera. Por no conocer, no conocía ni al compositor, del que leo falleció en la I Guerra Mundial a los 28 años de edad.
Esta ópera está inmersa dentro de la estética postromántica, con una estructura sencilla, con solo cuatro personajes, para una duración de 90 minutos y con unas tesituras bastante exigentes. Corto y pego una reflexión sobre esta ópera, extraída de:
http://www.warcomposers.co.uk/stephan.html"His greatest achievement is probably his two act opera
Die ersten Menschen (The First Man), an expressionist post-Wagnerian stage work based on an 'erotic mystery' by Otto Borngräber. Rudi had begun work on the opera in 1911 and was preparing for a premiere performance in 1914 when the war prevented the production. He apparently regarded the majority of his early works as training for it.
The work must have been considered decidedly controversial at the time; it casts the Biblical story of Cain and Abel along Freudian lines; the role of Eve is apparently played as a "virtual nymphomaniac", whose advances are shunned by Adam and the fratricide of Cain portrayed as oedipal jealousy. In its 1920 production, all four characters wore only simple bearskin costumes.
Rudi never saw his opera produced, however. In March 1915 he was called up for active service, and by September of that year he had been posted to Tarnopol, Galicia on the Eastern Front (now part of Ukraine). He was shot through the head by a Russian sniper two days after arriving at the front. He was 28".
Curiosos, no lo duden.