Arden Must Die | |
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Opera by Alexander Goehr | |
Other title | Arden muss sterben |
Librettist | Erich Fried |
Language | German, translated to English |
Premiere | 5 March 1967 |
Arden Must Die (German: Arden muss sterben) is an opera by Alexander Goehr. It premiered on 5 March 1967 at the Hamburg State Opera,[1] conducted by Charles Mackerras and directed by Egon Monk.[2] It was commissioned by the Hamburg State Opera.[3]
The German libretto was written by Erich Fried, with an English version by Geoffrey Skelton.[1] It tells the story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife Alice and her lover Mosbie. The libretto draws on two sixteenth-century accounts of the murder, namely the version by chronicler Raphael Holinshed and the anonymous play Arden of Faversham.[1]
The British première was at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, on 17 April 1974, conducted by Meredith Davies.[1]