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''The Consolations of Scholarship'' is an opera by Judith Weir with a libretto by the composer.〔Clements, Andrew. Judith Weir. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.'' Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.〕 ''The Consolations of Scholarship'' is based closely on the Yuan dramas ''The Orphan of Chao'' (by Chi Chun-hsiang) and the anonymous ''A Stratagem of Interlocking Rings''. Described as a 'music drama' for soprano and nine instruments, "a Yuan dynasty tale unfolds (this piece is the embryo for ''A Night at the Chinese Opera'' with which it shares both narrative and musical material) through plain narration and philosophical discourse".〔Grant, Julian. A Compulsive Narrator. ''Opera'', June 2006, pp. 650–654.〕 The work was composed for the Lontano Ensemble; the premiere took place at University of Durham in 1985 with Linda Hirst, mezzo-soprano, and Lontano directed by Odaline de la Martinez. ==Performance history== The opera was first performed at the University of Durham on 5 May 1985 with Hirst and Lontano, and recorded by them at St Luke's Hampstead in 1989, issued on United 88040.〔Booklet accompanying 'Judith Weir: 3 operas', United 88040 CD, 1994.〕 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「The Consolations of Scholarship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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