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The Corridor (opera)
''The Corridor'' is a chamber opera composed by Harrison Birtwistle to an English language libretto by David Harsent. It premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival on 12 June 2009. The title refers to the corridor through which Orpheus and Eurydice passed as he was leading her from the underworld.
==Background and performance history==
Various aspects of the myth of Orpheus have been a recurring theme in Birtwistle's work, first explored in his three-act opera ''The Mask of Orpheus'' (1986) and later incorporated into his two-act opera ''The Second Mrs Kong'' (1994).〔Clark, Andrew (6 March 2009). ("Sir Harrison Birtwistle on the joy of music" ). ''Financial Times''. Retrieved 5 February 2013 .〕 Between 2003 and 2004, he also composed ''The Orpheus Elegies'', a 26 part song cycle for countertenor, oboe and harp based on Rilke's ''Sonnets to Orpheus''. ''The Corridor'' focuses entirely on the moment in which Orpheus looks back at Eurydice, thus forcing her to return to the underworld forever. The opera's librettist, David Harsent, considers this one of the most brutal events in mythology:
It might not have the direct physical brutality of the death of Acteon or the flaying of Marsyas, but the combination of folly and irreversibility make for something deeper than poignancy and more visceral than regret.〔 ''Corridor'' was Harsent's third libretto for Birtwistle. The first two, ''Gawain'' (1991) and ''The Minotaur'' (2008), premiered at the Royal Opera House in London.
The world premiere of ''The Corridor'' on 12 June 2009 inaugurated the new Benjamin Britten Studio at Aldeburgh and was paired with the premiere of ''Semper Dowland, semper dolens'', Birtwistle's setting of John Dowland's ''Lachrimæ, or Seaven Teares''. Both works were commissioned by the Aldeburgh Festival and the Southbank Centre. The premiere production was directed by Peter Gill with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the London Sinfonietta. Elizabeth Atherton sang the role of Woman (Eurydice); Mark Padmore was Man (Orpheus).〔Christiansen, Rupert (15 June 2009). ("Birtwistle Premiere at the Aldeburgh Festival - review" ). ''Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved 5 February 2013.〕
The following month, the production and original cast toured to the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the work's London premiere and to the Bregenz Festival for its Austrian premiere.〔''Kleine Zeitung'' (1 August 2009). ("'The Story of Io' von Sir Birtwistle in Bregenz" ). Retrieved 5 February 2013. 〕 ''The Corridor'' was also performed in 2010 in a concert version at Merkin Hall in New York City with Brad Lubman conducting the contemporary music ensemble, Signal. On that occasion, the opera was paired with the premiere of Nico Muhly's setting of the ''Stabat Mater''.〔Kozinn, Allan (28 May 2010). ("Eurydice and Mary, at the Height of Sorrow" ). ''New York Times''. Retrieved 5 February 2013〕
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