← Concert Rentals / The Fly (an Opera in Two Acts)
Year of Composition:
2007
Librettist:
David Henry Hwang
Description:
Based on the 1957 George Langelaan short story and the 1986 David Cronenberg horror film, Howard Shore’s first opera The Fly is an engrossing exploration of the physical and psychological transformation in which a brilliant scientist begins to mutate into a hybrid of man and fly after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Instrumentation:
pic.2.2.ca.2.bcl.2 – 3.4(3.,4.btbn).4.0 – timp.perc(vib, mar, tub bells, sus cym, tam-t, s.d, b.d) – hp.ekeybd.cel – str
Occupation:
  • Seth Brundle, bass-baritone
  • Veronica Quaife, mezzo-soprano
  • Stathis Borans, tenor
  • Female Officer/Medical Analyst/Cheevers, mezzo-soprano
  • Marky, tenor
  • Scientist #1, mezzo-soprano
  • Scientist #2, baritone
  • Scientist #3, mezzo-soprano
  • Scientist #4, baritone
  • Scientist #5, baritone
  • Chorus
Duration:
2:00:00
Hire Library:
Schott Music

Productions

World Premiere: July 2 (5,8,11,13), 2008
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Chœur du Chåtelet
Plácido Domingo, conductor
Daniel Okulitch (Seth Brundle) • Ruxandra Donose (Veronica Quaife) • David Curry (Stathis Borans) • Beth Clayton (Female Officer/Medical Analyst/Cheevers) • Jay Hunter Morris (Marky) • Sophie van de Woestyne (Scientist #1) • Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (Scientist #2) • Louise Callinan (Scientist #3) • Frederic Goncalves (Scientist #4) • Luc Lalonde (Scientist #5) • David Cronenberg, staging • Denise Cronenberg, costume designer • Dante Ferretti, set designer • A.J. Weissbard, lighting designer • Grant Gershon, associate conductor/chorus master • Stephan L. Dupuis, makeup and creature design

National Premiere: September 7 (10,13,16,20,27), 2008
Los Angeles Opera
Plácido Domingo, conductor • Daniel Okulitch (Seth Brundle) • Ruxandra Donose (Veronica Quaife) • Gary Lehman (Stathis Borans) • Beth Clayton (Female Officer/Medical Analyst/Cheevers) • Jay Hunter Morris (Marky) • Silvia Vasquez (Scientist #1) • Nicholas Hartley (Scientist #2) • Anna Jablonski (Scientist #3) • Matthew Moore (Scientist #4) • Andrew Wilkowske (Scientist #5) • David Cronenberg, staging • Denise Cronenberg, costume designer • Dante Ferretti, set designer • A.J. Weissbard, lighting designer • Grant Gershon, associate conductor/chorus master • Stephan L. Dupuis, makeup and creature design

April 3, 2011
KKL, Luzern, Switzerland
21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus – Ludwig Wicki, conductor
Excerpts: “The Dream Began”, “Your Flesh”

May 26, 2013
Theater Trier, Trier, Germany
Theater Trier – Joongbae Jee, conductor

National Premiere: January 18 & 24, February 2 (4,15,26); March 2 & 8, 2014
Theater Trier, Trier, Germany
Theater Trier – Joongbae Jee, conductor
Sebastian Walker, director • Angela C. Schuett, costume design • Gerd Hofmann & Arlette Schwanenberg, stage design