Nicholas Lens
Nicholas Lens’ works are published
by Schott Music (Mainz/NY) and Mute Song Ltd (London)
and distributed by Universal Music Company and Sony/BMG
New releases
• Venticinque movimenti per Contrabbasso solo
Nicholas Lens
Schott Music release NEW publication
(25 MOVEMENTS for DOUBLE BASS SOLO)
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at https://en.schott-music.com/shop/venticinque-movimenti-no355673.html
• Shell Shock -DOUBLE CD
opera
opera by Nicholas Lens
libretto, Nick Cave
double CD release out now by Universal Music Company
download at Apple iTunes.
physical (booklet with 64 pages libretto Nick Cave in 4 languages)
order here AMAZON -AMAZON JAPAN -FNAC -PROXIS -STANDAARD
-CD UNIVERSE -RED EYE RECORDS -MONDADORI -ARU -PLATO -JPC
Listen to a fragment on YouTube.
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• 100 phrases tonales simples, petites études et
exercises pour piano -Vol. 1 (1-50) and 2 (51-100)
publishing piano book in print
order online at SCHOTT MUSIC
(in French, German and English version)
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Work in final preparation
• C o s t e l l o
t h i s b o d y t h a t I a m
opera by Nicholas Lens
libretto, John M. Coetzee
based on the novel Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
world premiere (dates and location) will be announced soon
• E R O S and The Intersex Human
opera by Nicholas Lens
world premiere (dates and location) will be announced soon
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opera
Recent works
• Shell Shock
A Requiem of War
opera by Nicholas Lens
libretto, Nick Cave
world premiere performances 24.10 > 02.11.2014
commissioned by Peter de Caluwe, Royal Opera House La Monnaie
stage director & choreography, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
stage designer, Eugenio Swarcer
costume designer, Khanh Le Thanh
conductor, Koen Kessels
chorus master, Martino Faggiani
soprano, Claron McFadden
mezzo-soprano, Sara Fulgoni
counter, Gerald Thompson
tenor, Ed Lyon
bass/baritone, Mark Steven Doss
boys soprano, Gabriel Kuti - Theo Lally - Gabriel Crozier
choir & orchestra Royal Opera House La Monnaie
published by Mute Ltd, London
double CD by Universal Music Company
download at Apple iTunes.
physical (booklet with 64 pages libretto Nick Cave in 4 languages)
order here AMAZON -AMAZON JAPAN -FNAC -PROXIS -STANDAARD
-CD UNIVERSE -RED EYE RECORDS -MONDADORI -ARU -PLATO
Listen to a fragment on YouTube.
Listen to another fragment on YouTube
new series of live performances expected in 2018
• Slow Man
opera by Nicholas Lens
libretto by John M. Coetzee based on his novel Slow Man,
world premiere performances 5.07 > 8.07.2012 the Malta Festival,
Grand Theatre, Poznań
commissioned by Michal Merczynski & Kasia Törz, Malta Festival
stage director, Maja Kleczewska
stage designer, Wojciech Pus
conductor, Bassem Akiki
Marijana, Claron McFadden
Elizabeth Costello, Lani Poulson
Paul Rayment, Mark S. Doss
choir & orchestra Grand Opera Theatr Wielki
Excerpt aria ‘Coitus with a stranger’
Aria ‘A Blind Woman’ -studio version
Aria ‘ Pain is Nothing’ -studio version
Archived works
•Love Is the Only Master I'll Serve,
film (22 min.)
written & directed by Nicholas Lens
with Louise Peterhoff, Claron McFadden and Clara-Lane Lens
New York, June 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn1Zi6NBjvk&list=PLLYJW7rOzTuWVwDMG4PAL1O1a7AxCvFD3
•The Puppet Designer for baritone and chamber orchestra, published by Schott Music 2006
• Historium, soundtrack 2012 (Brussels Philharmonic)
•Wired You Xian, theatrical chamber music for harp and soprano,
world premiere 5 December 2006 Beijing, China
•The music drama and trilogy The Accacha Chronicles (2005) for soprano, tenor, counter, mezzo soprano, baritone, bass,
small choir, mixed choir and chamber orchestra, Sony BMG 82876 66239 2, published by Schott Music
part I: Flamma Flamma – The Fire Requiem (1994), Sony Classical SK 66293
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FY5HzxQK9U
part II: Terra Terra – The Aquarius Era (1999), BMG Classics 74321 697182
part III: Amor Aeternus – Hymns of Love (2005), Sony BMG 82876 66238 2
•Mein erstes Wunder, soundtrack, film by Anne Wild, world premiere Berlin, 2003
•Was Hast Du Mit Meinem Herz Getan? (soundtrack “Marie-Antoinette” a film by Irma Achten, prod. K. Kasander)
premiere Rotterdam FilmFestival1995, for soprano, baritone, counter tenor and chamber orchestra, CD release
on Sony Classical (SK 62016), published by Schott Music Mainz
works available for hire at Schott Music Publishing