![]() Recent operatic engagements include First Noble of Brabant Lohengrin (Royal Opera House Covent Garden) Ralph Rackstraw HMS Pinafore (English National Opera) Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scottish Opera) Cassio Otello and Steuermann Der fliegende Holländer (Grange Park Opera) Fenton Falstaff, Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, Dr Richardson He also performs Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and recitals at Wigmore Hall, London. In the 2022/23 season he sings Rinuccio, Young Lover Il tritticoįor Scottish Opera and Dr Richardson Breaking the Waves for Opera Comique. Paul’s work is accomplished and he bids goodbye, telling his friends that America is what they choose to make it.Welsh tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama He is an English National Opera Harewood Artist and a former Scottish Opera Emerging Artist. The telegram boy returns with a message summoning Inkslinger to Hollywood. At a Christmas Eve party, Inkslinger announced that Slim has found a position at a Manhattan hotel and is to wed Tiny, while Helson is off to Washington. The Third Ballad Interlude tells of Helson’s reconciliation with Paul, the love of Tiny and Slim and the spread of Paul’s achievements. Coming to his senses, he turns on his cronies. Helson loses and, presumed dead, is carried off to a mock-funeral march. Paul and Helson fight as Tiny and Slim declare their love. Tiny goes off to help in the kitchen, to Inkslinger’s regret.Īct Two. Helson is put in charge of the camp and is urged to challenge Paul’s leadership. Bunyan returns to the camp accompanied by Tiny who attracts both Inkslinger and Slim. After complaints about the standard of the food, Inkslinger employs Hot Biscuit Slim as cook. The Second Ballad Interlude then tells the story of Paul’s marriage to Carrie, the birth of daughter Tiny and Carrie’s death. Bunyan hires him along with two cooks, and a book-keeper, Johnny Inkslinger. A Western Union boy enters with a telegram recommending Hel Helson as head-foreman. In the First Ballad Interlude, the Narrator relates the story of the birth and early life of Paul Bunyan.Īct One. In a clearing in the forest, the lumberjacks appear. Three Wild Geese enter and prophesy the birth of Paul Bunyan, who will clear the forest to make way for civilisation, at the next blue moon. ![]() In the Prologue, Four Young Trees are heard rebelling against their elders’ complacency. Time and Place: The United States of America, early times. It was performed in complete revised form at Snape Maltings on 4 June 1976, the first time the full opera had been heard in the UK. Britten revised the work when recovering after heart surgery in 1974. It was not performed again for over 30 years.ĥ. Otherwise it is undistinguished’ (Virgil Thomson). The first production was not well-received by the press: ‘Mr Britten’s work in ‘Paul Bunyan’ is sort of witty at best. She was Helen Marshall, a member of the Elizabethan Singers, a choir Pears had formed in New York.Ĥ. Very close to the premiere, Britten composed the beautiful ‘Tiny’s Song’ for the woman cast in that role in the first production was an excellent singer. Although Bunyan is a figure from American folklore, he was also appropriated by the Red River Lumber Company in their advertisements.ģ. ![]() Some of the Paul Bunyan ‘stories’ are not from oral history, but were created for commercials in the early twentieth century. Britten and WH Auden worked on the opera while sharing a house in Brooklyn, NY with burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee.Ģ.
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