Poul Ruders - Selma Jezková - An Opera Based On Lars Von Trier's 'Dancer In The Dark' Album

Tracklist

1	The Factory
2	The Trailer
3	The Death Cell
4	The Gallows Chamber
5	The Courtroom

Credits

• Choreography – Signe Fabricius
• Composed By – Poul Ruders
• Conductor – Michael Schønwandt
• Cover – Miklos Szabo
• Libretto By – Henrik Engelbrecht
• Orchestra – The Royal Danish Orchestra
• Set Designer – Christian Lemmerz
• Stage Manager – Kasper Holten
• Video Editor – Uffe Borgwardt
• Vocals [Bill Houston] – Palle Knudsen
• Vocals [Brenda] – Ulla Kudsk Jensen
• Vocals [District Attorney/Guard 1] – Gert Henning Jensen
• Vocals [Kathy] – Hanne Fischer
• Vocals [Norman/Guard 2] – Guido Paevatalu
• Vocals [Selma Jezková] – Ylva Kihlberg
• Voice [Gene] – Carl Philip Levin
• Written-By [Original Story] – Lars Von Trier

Notes

Recorded live at The Royal Danish Opera on 13. September 2010.
Included with a 51 pages booklet.
DVD made in Germany.
Sung in English.
Subtitles: English, German, Danish.
Sound formats: Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1.
Region code: 0.
Running time: 73 min.+ 47 min. bonus material.
DVD9, NTSC.
Bonus material: From the cradle to the grave - the making of Selma Jezková.

Barcodes

• Barcode: 7 47313 54105 8

Companies

• Distributed By – NGL Naxos Global Logistics GmbH
• Recorded At – Operaen

Short intro

Dancer in the Dark Danish: Danser i mørket is a 2000 English-language Danish musical melodrama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It stars Icelandic musician Björk as a daydreaming immigrant factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition and is saving up to pay for an operation to prevent her young son from suffering the same fate. Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Cara Seymour and Joel Grey also star. Selma Ježková is an opera by Poul Ruders based on Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark about a Czech immigrant coming to America. Ruders dedicated the role to Ylva Kihlberg, who sang in the premiere. Selma Ježková sung in English Ylva Kihlberg Selma, Palle Knudsen Bill, Hanne Fischer Kathy, Guido Paevatalu NormanGuard 2, Gert Henning-Jensen District AttorneyGuard 1 & Carl Philip Levin Gene The Royal Danish Opera & The Royal Danish Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt DVD. Lars von Trier, Poul Ruders, 11 authors Uffe Borgwardt. Published 2011. Save to Library. Create Alert. Launch Research Feed. Create an AI-powered research feed to stay up to date with new papers like this posted to ArXiv. Composer Poul Ruders talks about his opera Selma Jezková based on Lars von Trier's film Dancer in the Dark. Released on DVD by Dacapo Records . Cast: Selma Jezková Dramatic soprano Bill Houston Baritone District AttorneyGuard 2 - High tenor Kathy Mezzo Brenda Deep Contralto Norman foreman at the factoryGuard 1- Baritone. Synopsis: The story takes place in the . around 1963. The factory worker Selma is slowly going blind due to an eye disease. Furthermore her son Glen suffers from the same disease. Brenda supports the panicking Selma. In the last moment Kathy gives Selma a pair of glasses in her hands they are Genes. Selma is executed with the knowledge that Gene has had a successful operation, and will be able to see his grandchildren. Poul Ruderss adaptation of Dancer in the Dark, the 2000 Lars von Trier film musical, fails to persuade you to consider it on its own terms. And that is the problem with Poul Ruderss drab new one-act opera, Selma Jezkova, based on the 2000 Lars von Trier film musical Dancer in the Dark, starring Bjork. The opera - first performed in September at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, directed by Kaspar Holten and conducted by Michael Schonwandt - had its American premiere in the same production on Friday evening at the Rose Theater as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. Poul Ruders' opera Selma Jezková 2010 is based on Lars von Trier's film Dancer in the Dark and follows the heart-wrenching story of Selma, a poor factory worker with failing eyesight who sacrifices her life to ensure that her son receives an eye operation. The opera is a dark and compelling story of fate. Poul Ruders in fact tells the story better than Lars von Trier does in his Palme d'Or-winning film. The score is chock-a-block with elegant details and fine nuances that conductor Michael Schønwandt gives subtle life. The music sounds quite unashamedly beautiful. Poul Ruders' opera Selma Jezková sung in English is based on Lars von Trier's film Dancer in the Dark and follows the heart-wrenching story of Selma, a poor factory worker with failing eyesight who sacrifices her life to ensure that her son receives an eye operation. The opera is a dark and compelling story of fate a highly evocative and epic performance yet also intensely distilled with a duration of just 70 minutes. In this DVD production of the 2010 Copenhagen première performance, the forces of the Royal Danish Opera are directed by Kasper Holten and framed by Christian Lemmer. Director: Lars von Trier. Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm. It feels awkward to attempt to put Dancer in the Dark into words. Von Trier's film is one of those movies that truly change the way we think about cinema and its possibilities, and for such a film, words do no justice. Dancer in the Dark centers around Selma Björk, a factory worker, who loves her 10-year-old son above everything else in the world. Selma is a happy, innocent creature who enjoys musicals for nothing bad ever happens in them. July 29 at 8: The central event of the Danish residency is a single performance of Selma Ježková -an opera based on Lars von Triers film Dancer in the Dark -by Poul Ruders, who rocked the opera world a decade ago with his mesmerizing adaptation of Margaret Atwoods novel The Handmaids Tale. Schønwandt conducts. Rose Theatre. The New Yorker