Op. 232 ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL
(August 24, 2014)
An Opera in Three Husbands and Multiple Lovers (All Famous)
PROLOGUE - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER
I. 1879 - ANNA SOFIE BERGEN (Alma's Mother)
II. 1880 - JULIUS VIKTOR BERGER
(Alma's Mother's First Lover)
III. 1881 - MARGARETHE (GRETE) JULIE SCHINDLER
(Alma's Half Sister)
IV. 1882 - GRANDMOTHER (Photograph I)
V. 1883 - MANON AUGUSTE PAULINE SCHARMWEBER
GROPIUS (Gropius' Mother)
VI. 1884 - EMIL JAKOB SCHINDLER (Alma's Father)
VII. 1885 - GUSTAV MAHLER (Alma's First Husband)
VIII. 1886 - OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Lover)
IX. 1887 - PRINCE RUDOLF (Alma's Father's Employer)
X. 1888 - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER (Photograph II)
XI. 1889 - CARL MOLL (Alma's Mother's Second Lover)
XII. 1890 - FRANZ VIKTOR WERFEL
(Alma's Second Husband
XIII. 1891 - GEZA ZICHY (Mahler's Rival)
XIV. 1892 - SYLT
(Alma's First Compositonal Efforts and Father's Death)
XV. 1893 - ALMA / SOPHIE / GRETE (Photograph III)
XVI. 1894 - SCHULE (Alma's Education)
XVII. 1895 - MAX BURCKHARD / OTTO MAHLER
(Alma's First Kiss / Suicide of Otto Mahler / Br III)
XVIII. 1895 - JOSEF LABOR (Alma's First Teacher)
XIX. 1897 - GUSTAV KLIMT (Alma's Second Kiss)
XX. 1898 - ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
(Alma's Artistic Associations)
XXI. 1899 - MARIA MOLL (Photograph IV)
XXII. 1900 - ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY
(Alma's Second Teacher / First Lover)
XXIII. 1901 - GUSTAV MAHLER (Alma's First Husband)
ACT I - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER
XXIV. 1902 - RICHARD STRAUSS / MARIA ANNA "PUTZI"
(Mahler's Friend / Alma's 1st Daughter)
XXV. 1903 - HAUPTMAN / PFITZNER / P. STRAUSS /
GOLDMARK / CHARPENTIER (Viennese Life)
XXVI. 1904 - ANNA JUSTINE "GUCKI" / GABRILOWITSCH
(In the Country / Alma's 2nd Daughter)
XXVII. 1905 - FELIX MUHR / GUSTAV MAHLER
(In the Theatre)
XXVIII. 1906 - ALMA / GUSTAV (In the Home)
XXIX. 1907 - NEW YORK / MARIA ANNA /STRAVINSKY /
SIBELIUS / CARUSO (In the City)
XXX. 1908 - TOBLACH (Mahler's Premonitions of Death)
XXXI. 1909 - RODIN / TOSCANINI (Mahler's Fame)
XXXII. 1910 - WALTER GROPIUS / SIGMUND FREUD
(Alma's First Affair)
XXXIII. 1911 - MAHLER / FRAENKEL / SCHREKER
(Mahler's Death / Bruckner Third)
XXXIV. 1912 - PAUL KAMMERER / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
(Alma's Lovers)
XXXV. 1913 - ALMA MAHLER / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
(Kokoschka's Paintings - Bride of the Wind)
XXXVI. 1914 - OSKAR KOKOSCHKA / HANS PFITZNER
(World War I)
ACT II - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS
XXXVII. 1915 - SIGFRIED OCHS / WALTER GROPIUS /
OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's 2nd Husband)
XXXVIII. 1916 - MANON GROPIUS (Alma's 3rd Daughter)
XXXIX. 1917 - FRANZ WERFEL (Alma's 3rd Husband-To-Be)
XL. 1918 - MARTIN WERFEL / HULDA RESERL /
HERMINE MOOS (Alma's Son)
XLI. 1919 - THE PUPPET (Alma's Image)
XLII. 1920 - GROPIUS / PROSTITUTE / FESTIVAL (
Alma's Divorce)
XLIII. 1921 - SCHOENBERG / RAVEL / BERG / MILHAUD /
POULENC (Alma's Soirees)
XLIV. 1922 - RUPERT KOLLER / ERNST KRENEK
(Alma's Sons-in-Law)
XLV. 1923 - ERNST KRENEK / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
(Alma's Lover's Opera)
XLVI. 1924 - SCHOENBERG / WEBERN / BERG / KRENEK /
SHOSTAKOVICH (Mahler's 10th)
XLVII. 1925 - ALBAN BERG / HANNA FUCHS-ROBETTIN
(Alma's Courier Service)
XLVIII. 1926 - RUPERT JOSEPH / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA /
PAUL KAMMERER (Alma's Inspiration)
XLIX. 1927 - FRANZ WERFEL / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
(Alma's Indecision)
L. 1928 - ALBAN BERG / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
(Kokoschka's Letters)
ACT III - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS
WERFEL
LI. 1929 - FRANZ WERFEL / MANON GROPIUS
(Alma's Third Marriage)
LII. 1930 - ANNA MAHLER / PAUL VON ZSOLNAY
(Anna's Third Marriage)
LIII. 1931 - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW /
PAUL VON ZSOLNAY (Anna's Third Separation)
LIV. 1932 - THEO JOHANNES HOLLNSTEINER
(Alma's Religious Affair)
LV. 1933 - HEINRICH BRUENING / ADOLF HITLER
(Alma's World)
LVI. 1934 - ELIAS CANETTI / MAID (Manon's polio)
LVII. - 1935 MANON GROPIUS / ALBAN BERG
(Manon and Berg's Deaths)
LVIII. 1936 - JOHANNES HOLLNSTEINER /
KURT SCHUSCHNIGG (Manon's Eulogy)
LIX. 1937 - WERFEL / ZUCKMAYER / VON PAPEN /
KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Farewell Party)
LX. 1938 - ANSCHLUSS (Alma's Departure)
LXI. 1939 - GRETE / BRUCKNER
(Grete's Death / Bruckner's Third Negotiations)
LXII. 1940 - PYRANEES (Alma's Escape)
LXIII. 1941 - LOS ANGELES / HANDSOME AUGUST HESS /
ALBRECHT JOSEPH (Alma's Politics)
LXIV. 1942 - ERICH MARIA REMARQUE /
ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY (Drinking Song)
LXV. 1943 - SANTA BARBARA / FRANZ WERFEL
(Werfel's Heart Attacks)
LXVI. 1944 - TORBERG / KOKOSCHKA / BEMELMANS
(Alma's Friends)
LXVII. 1945 - MOLL / EBERSTALLER / MUSSOLINI /
HITLER / WERFEL (Alma's Deaths)
EPILOGUE - THE GREAT WIDOW
LXVIII. 1946 - THOMAS MANN / BRUNO WALTER /
CLAIRE GOLL (Alma's Prospects)
LXIX. 1947 - ARNOLD SCHOENBERG / THOMAS MANN
(Schoenberg's Ire)
LXX. 1948 - ANTON BRUCKNER / ANNA MAHLER
(Alma's Sale / Anna's Visit)
LXXI. 1949 - STRAUSS / PFITZNER / SCHOENBERG /
MANN… (Alma's 70th Birthday)
LXXII. 1950 - ANNA / MARINA (Anna's Move)
LXXIII. 1951 - ARNOLD SCHOENBERG /
ANNA MAHLER (Schoenberg's Death / Anna's Mask)
LXXIV. 1952 - YOU BET YOUR LIFE
(Alma's Move / Anna's Appearance)
LXXV. 1953 - THORNTON WILDER / SAMUEL STEWARD
(Alma's Encounters)
LXXVI. 1954 - VIENNA STATE OPERA / RODIN / MAHLER /
STRAUSS (Alma's Protestations)
LXXVII. 1955 - BENEDIKT FRED DOLBIN /
LIGHT IN THE NIGHT (Photo VI)
LXXVIII. 1956 - 120 EAST 73RD STREET /
BLISS IN THE WOODS (Photo VII)
LXXIX. 1957 - LIBRARY / ONSLAUGHT (Photo VIII)
LXXX. 1958 - AND THE BRIDGE IS LOVE (Alma's Biography)
LXXXI. 1959 - MAHLER / PFITZNER / ZEMLINSKY /
SCHOENBERG / BERG / KORNGOLD / KRENEK /
BRITTEN (Alma's Dedicators)
LXXXII. 1960 - WALTER GROPIUS / PAUL ZSOLNAY /
WILLY HAAS (Alma's Reactions)
LXXXIII. 1961 - DERYCK COOKE (Mahler's 10th)
LXXXIV . 1962 - BERNSTEIN / LA GRANGE / WOOD / CARR
(The Alma Problem)
LXXXV. 1963 - IGOR STRAVINSKY / WALTER GROPIUS /
OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Photo IX)
LXXXVI. 1964 - ELIAS CANETTI / AL[BRECHT] JOSEPH /
FRIEDRICH TORBERG (Alma's Death)
Score::
Performances
August 12-13; 26-27, 2016
Fresh Voices XVI: Memories and Desires
Kassidy Grace Mayernik - Alma Maria Schindler /
Anna Justine "Gucki" Mahler / Hans Pfitzner /
The Alma Doll / Darius Milhaud / Hanna Fuchs-Robettin /
Brunner Arbeitzeitung II
Larissa Lorenz - Alma Maria Schindler Mahler / Julius Viktor Berger /
Manon Gropius / Hulda Reserl / Anton Webern / Rupert Koller /
Gladwyn Kingsley Noble / Franz von Papen / Egon Friedell
Christa Durand - Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius / Carl Moll /
Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber /
Marie Theienemann Hauptmann / Madame M / Igor Stravinsky /
Franz Schreker / Kokoschka Doll-Party Police Officer I / Maid /
Brunner Arbeitzeitung III / Carl Zuckmayer
Jill Wagonern - Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel /
Anna Sophie Bergen Schindler / Otto Mahler / Pauline Strauss /
Doctor / Kokoschka Doll-Party Attendee I / Gropius's Prostitute /
Police Officer I / Maurice Ravel / Dmitri Shostakovich
Mark Alburger - Gustav Mahler / Hermine Moos / Alban Berg /
Adolf Hitler / Nazi II / Director / Music Director
Jamie Samantha Lee - Walter Gropius / Crown Prince Rudolf /
Oman Bergen / Geza Zichy / Max Burckhard / Arnold Schoenberg /
Bruno Walter / Richard Strauss / Felix Muhr / Jean Sibelius /
Auguste Rodin / Paul Kammerere /
Kokoschka Doll-Party Attendee II / Paul Zsolnay /
Johannes Hollnsteiner / Heinrich Bruening /
Brunner Arbeitzeitung IV / Nazi I
Jacqueline Goldgorin - Oskar Kokoschka / Gustav Klimt /
Margarethe Julie Schindler / Maria Moll Eberstaller /
Maria Anna "Putzi" Mahler / Sigmund Freud /
Gropius's Prostitute / Francis Poulenc / Adolf von Zsolnay /
Elias Canetti / Brunner Arbeitzeitung I
Harriet March Page - Franz Werfel / Emil Jakob Schindler /
Alexander von Zemlinsky / gerhart Hauptmann / Carl Goldmark /
Gustave Charpentier / Enrico Caruso / Joseph Fraenkel /
Siegfried Oches / Kokoschka Doll-Party Police Officer II /
Gropius's Prosititue Police Officer II / Ernst Krenek /
Albrecht Joseph / Anna Sophie Bergen Schinder Moll /
Artistic Director
Feona Lee Jones - Alma Doppelganger Pianist / Josef Labor /
Ossip Gabrilowitsch / Piano
Alan Kingsley - Flute / Piccolo
Peter Brown - Clarinet
Michael Garvey - Bassoon
Michael Cox - Trumpet
Jonathan Ho - Violin
Robin Reynolds - Cello
Goat Hall Productions
Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Gropius's Prosititue Police Officer II / Ernst Krenek /
Albrecht Joseph / Anna Sophie Bergen Schinder Moll /
Artistic Director
Feona Lee Jones - Alma Doppelganger Pianist / Josef Labor /
Ossip Gabrilowitsch / Piano
Alan Kingsley - Flute / Piccolo
Peter Brown - Clarinet
Michael Garvey - Bassoon
Michael Cox - Trumpet
Jonathan Ho - Violin
Robin Reynolds - Cello
Goat Hall Productions
Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
