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''Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs'' is a 1991 opera by Michael Nyman that began as an opera-ballet titled ''La Princesse de Milan'' choreographed by Karine Saporta. The libretto is William Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'', as abridged by the composer. The title is derived from Caliban's line, "This isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs, which give delight and hurt not." It premiered in June 1991 in Hérouville-Saint-Clair, Calvados, France, with the L'Ensemble de Basse-Normandie conducted by Dominique Debart. Three members of Saporta's dance company provided the singing. The opera is scored for one soprano, one contralto, and one tenor, two saxophones, and orchestra. The three singers are not assigned roles on character lines. They are voices, "carriers of text", and two or three singers often sing the role of a single character at points in the opera, and no character is sung consistently by any one voice. As originally performed, the dancers portrayed the characters. Nyman's liner notes of the recording give no indication of how the opera could be staged dramatically without the dancers, even though which title is used is dependent upon whether dancers are utilized. The opera-only version, which premiered in 1993, also includes more of Shakespeare's text. Nyman and Saporta collaborated on ''Prospero's Books'', Peter Greenaway's film version of ''The Tempest'', and were interested in working further with the play. Nyman did not base his score on that he wrote for ''Prospero's Books'', but began a new score from scratch, occasionally interpolating music from the previous score as is his wont. He chose not to set Ariel's songs or the Masque, which he had already set, but he allows for them to be interpolated into the opera. Some of the music, such as in "The fringed curtains of thine eye advance" and "Ye elves" are known to be derived from ''La Traversée de Paris''. The instrumental piece that became "Ye elves" is retitled "Miranda Previsted" on ''The Very Best of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980-2001''. ==Libretto== The libretto, an abridgement of Shakespeare's play (with some slight wording changes) is divided into seventeen sections: #If by your Art, my dearest father (Act I, Scene 2) #Alas, poor Milan! (Act I, Scene 2) #Be't to fly (Act I, Scene 2) #This damned witch Sycorax (Act I, Scene 2) #The fringed curtains of thine eye advance (Act I, Scene 2) #There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple (Act I, Scene 2) #How lush and lusty the grass looks! (Act II, Scene 1) #Riches, poverty, and use of service, none (Act II, Scene 1) #Sometime like apes/The master, the gunner,〔Shakespeare's text has "swabber" here, with "gunner" on the next line. Nyman's version has "gunner" in both places. He has never explained this, but Summers sang it as Nyman included it in the libretto on the recording.〕 the boatswain, and I (Act II, Scene 2) #Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard (Act III, Scene 1) #'Tis a custom in the afternoon to sleep (Act III, Scenes 2 and 3) #I have made you mad (Act III, Scene 3, Act IV, Scene 1) #You do look, my son, in a moved sort (Act IV, Scene 1, Act V, Scene 1) #Ye elves (Act V, Scene 1) #Thy brother was a furtherer in the act. (Act V, Scene 1) #Sir, she is mortal (Act V, Scene 1) #My tricksy spirit! (Act V, Scene 1) Nyman allows for "The Masque", written for ''Prospero's Books'', to be inserted between Sections 12 and 13. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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