Listen to the first episode in a new series of podcasts by Studio zOaR, the production and composition nexus for composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp. In this podcast, Sharp gives an overview of his opera Die Grösste Fuge which will receive its US premiere on June 13, 2024 at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY.

Nearing the end of his life and almost completely deaf, Beethoven becomes unmoored from reality and travels to the future and back. Witnessing our world’s horrors and beauty inspires him to compose his final work “Die Grösse Fuge” (The Great Fugue). One may listen to the entire opera, Die Grösste Fuge, here.

While the original version of Die Grösste Fuge was sung in German, the work has been translated into English for the US premiere.

Credits:
Released May 8, 2024
Recorded at Studio zOaR, NYC, May 5, 2024.
Features excerpts from Sharp’s recording of Die Grösste Fuge with bass/baritone Nicholas Isherwood and the Asasselo Quartet as well as an excerpt from an unattributed performance of Beethoven’s Die Grösse Fuge.
Narration: Elliott Sharp.