Catalogue No: DE3211
Discs: 1
Release date: 1997
Barcode: 0013491321127
Length: 73 minutes
Medium: CD (download also available)Ana Maria Martinez (soprano), Jill Grove (mezzo-soprano), Raymond Very (tenor), Grant Youngblood (baritone), Mary Petro (soprano), Jonita Lattimore (soprano), Patrick Blackwell (bass-baritone), Michael Chioldi (baritone), Bright Sheng (narrator), Andrew J. Porter (narrator)
Houston Grand Opera Chorus, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Ward Holmquist
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Bright Sheng: The Song of Majnun Scene 1: Tiger in the pinewood, run through the pinewood (Boys, Girls, Majnun, Layla, Layla's Mother and Father)
Scene 2: Here! What? Have you heard, have you heard? (First Gossip, Second Gossip, Majnun)
Scene 3: Light of my soul, where are you? (Ensemble, Layla)
Scene 4: Old man, who are you? (Majnun, Majnun's Father)
Scene 5: Has he heard, has he heard? (First Gossip, Second Gossip, Ensemble, Layla's Mother and Father, IBN Salam)
Scene 6: This letter comes from a grieving woman to a man of grief (Layla, Majnun)
Scene 7: Layla, my child, come inside (Layla's Mother, Layla)
Interlude: Majnun's Dream
Scene 8: Layla, we mourn you (Ensemble, IBN Salam, Layla Mother and Father, First Gossip, Second Gossip, Majnun)
Bright Sheng: Composer Bright Sheng and Librettist Andrew Porter in Coversation with Tom Sudholt, host of Saturday Afternoon at the Opera Composer Bright Sheng and Librettist Andrew Porter in Coversation with Tom Sudholt, host of Saturday Afternoon at the Opera