Max Brand
26.04.1896—05.04.1980

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Max Brand
Maschinist Hopkins | Opera in 1 prologue and 3 acts

Work Details
Year of composition: 1928
Subtitle: Opera in 1 prologue and 3 acts
Composer: Max Brand
Text Author: Max Brand
Translator: Elizabeth Forbes
Parts: Jim, bass
Nell, soprano
Bill, tenor
Hopkins, baritone
Kommis, speaking part
Spießer, speaking part
Beamter, silent part
6 Entertainers: 2 tenors and 4 basses
various smaller parts — ballet
Choir: SATB
Instrumentation: 2 2 2 2 - 4 3 3 1 - timp, perc, glock, xyl, hp, cel, pno, alto sax, t.sax, str - on stage: retuned (electric) piano, low tam-tam, siren, thunder- and wind-machine, thunder wheet with iron balls
Scenery: 9
Duration (min): 135

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World Première
Location: Duisburg / Germany
Date: 13.04.1929
Work Introduction

With his opera Maschinist Hopkins (composed from 1927–1928 and first performed in 1929) Brand really caught the spirit of the time: the opera is a mixture of thriller and jealous tragedy, with industrial romanticism and the glow of stage revues combined with corporate arrogance and [...]

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