All Three Acts
of a Sad Play
Performed Entirely
in Bed
In a similarly upbeat vein was Dag Gabrielsen’s sweetly surreal “All Three Acts of a Sad Play Performed Entirely in Bed,” with a libretto by Julie Larios. A cute postmodern riff, mostly on Strauss’s waltz-crazy “Rosenkavalier,” it follows a woman for 10 minutes as she recalls fragments of an old relationship.
The New York Times
POCKET OPERA
IN THREE ACTS
Score & Scenario by Dag Gabrielsen
Text by Julie Larios
All Three Acts of a Sad Play Performed Entirely in Bed is a ten-minute pocket opera in three acts with overture set in New York City in the 1960s. The action takes place on and around a single, unmade bed. In front of the bed - a martini glass, empty bottle of gin and ashtray full of cigarette butts. In the bed - Lily, a young woman in white nightgown (or rather, Lily’s memory of herself in her twenties) - and Lyle, the ghost of a player Lily slept with years earlier.
Orchestral version premiered by New York City Opera (2011)
IN THREE ACTS
Score & Scenario by Dag Gabrielsen
Text by Julie Larios
All Three Acts of a Sad Play Performed Entirely in Bed is a ten-minute pocket opera in three acts with overture set in New York City in the 1960s. The action takes place on and around a single, unmade bed. In front of the bed - a martini glass, empty bottle of gin and ashtray full of cigarette butts. In the bed - Lily, a young woman in white nightgown (or rather, Lily’s memory of herself in her twenties) - and Lyle, the ghost of a player Lily slept with years earlier.
Orchestral version premiered by New York City Opera (2011)
Ryan McAdams, conductor
Meredith Lustig as Lily
Karin Mushegain as Lyle
WQXR RADIO INTERVIEW
Jeff Spurgeon & Dag Gabrielsen
Jeff Spurgeon & Dag Gabrielsen
ORCHESTRAL SCORE
The Physicists
CHAMBER OPERA
IN TWO ACTS
Score, Scenario & Set Design by Dag Gabrielsen
Based on the stage play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
IN TWO ACTS
Score, Scenario & Set Design by Dag Gabrielsen
Based on the stage play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Jessica Grigg as Fräulein Dr. Mathilde von Zahnd
Paul Houghtaling as Dürrenmatt / Inspector Voss
Jeffrey Gavett as Möbius
William Ferguson as Newton
Glenn Steven Allen as Einstein / Oskar Rose
Helen Gabrielsen as Lina Rose / Nurse Monika
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Food
POCKET MONODRAMA
IN 9 MOVEMENTS
Score & Scenario by Dag Gabrielsen
Texts by Gertrude Stein from Tender Buttons
Helen Gabrielsen as The Woman
Suzanne Gilchrest, flute
Ina Litera, viola
Matthew Goeke, cello
I. Prelude
II. Cranberries
III. Milk
IV. Eggs
V. Apple
VI. Rhubarb
VII. Cake
VIII. Custard
IX. Butter
Cream [Optional Encore]
Premiered by 8 Strings & A Whistle with Helen Gabrielsen at Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
IN 9 MOVEMENTS
Score & Scenario by Dag Gabrielsen
Texts by Gertrude Stein from Tender Buttons
Helen Gabrielsen as The Woman
Suzanne Gilchrest, flute
Ina Litera, viola
Matthew Goeke, cello
I. Prelude
II. Cranberries
III. Milk
IV. Eggs
V. Apple
VI. Rhubarb
VII. Cake
VIII. Custard
IX. Butter
Cream [Optional Encore]
Premiered by 8 Strings & A Whistle with Helen Gabrielsen at Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
Chapter I
CHAMBER OPERA
Score & Scenario by Dag Gabrielsen
Text by Christian Bök
soprano
mezzo-soprano
tenor
baritone
bass
male chorus
chamber orchestra
Score & Scenario by Dag Gabrielsen
Text by Christian Bök
soprano
mezzo-soprano
tenor
baritone
bass
male chorus
chamber orchestra
Scene 5 - "Which blind spirit"
