PMP Orchestra, Roland Dahinden
Anthony Braxton: Trillium X
Catalogue Number: PMP2501
Published: 9th May 2025
Format: 8 CD Box Set + 6 hours of audiovisual material
In 2025, PMP is proud to release Trillium X, a sixth opera by Anthony Braxton, on the occasion of his 80th Birthday. A limited deluxe 8-CD box set including both, a live recording of the world premiere in Prague, a studio recording realized at the famous Darmstadt Summer Course, a 6-hour of exclusive audiovisual materials documented a complete world premiere, Marek Bouda's documentary film In the Garden of Trillium X, and in-depth conversation between Anthony Braxton, Swiss conductor Roland Dahinden and German writer and Braxton's scholar Timo Hoyer.
Braxton spent five years working on his opus magnum. He has been significantly involved in all Trillium performances, including this one. He has accompanied the rehearsals from the very beginning. Roland Dahinden, his long-time fellow from Wesleyan University, is the conductor.
The performance came off as a significant milestone in Braxton’s opera career, thanks to some revelatory work by a cast of 12, the PMP Orchestra and the conductor Roland Dahinden, a longtime Braxton collaborator …. But this performance in Prague demonstrated just how much American opera companies, and audiences, are missing in neglecting this project… Dahinden’s orchestra responded to the score’s tumultuous moments with precise intonation and enviable balance.
New York Times
TRILLIUM X (8-CD box, PMP 2501)
Composition NO. 396
(Opera in four acts)
For orchestra, 12 solo singers, instrumentalists,
Centurion, choir, computer music, light/image projection crew,
virtual technical crew & constructed fantasy environments.
Act 1: Voyage to the New Worlds
Act 2: Robots versus Humans
Act 3: The Three Sisters
Act 4: Four Disasters
Music: Anthony Braxton
Libretto: Anthony Braxton
Conductor: Roland Dahinden
Piano: Hildegard Kleeb
Singers: Eva Esterková, Anežka Matoušková, Jana Vondrů, Andrea Pietrová, Barbora Jirásková, Elmaz Mrkvičková, Štěpán Janoušek, Vojtěch Šembera, Michael Robotka, Aleš Janiga, Martin Kotulan, František Sliž.
PMP Orchestra: Anna Romanovská, Anna Veverková, Barbora Sulková, Jana Havláková, Anna Štěpánová, Vít Nermut, Adéla Hýková, Tomáš Vilím, Ian Mikyska, Štěpán Drtina, Ondřej Holas, George Cremaschi, Petr Tichý, Klára Pudláková, Didrik Ingvaldsen, Jan Přibil, Jakub Gatěk, Jan Jirucha, Václav Kalivoda, Rod Paton, Andrea La Rose, Katarína Turčinová, Antonín Soukup, Pavel Zlámal, Radim Hanousek, Michal Wróblewski, Marcel Bárta, Martin Debřička, Jan Pudlák, Miloš Kunc, Jan Bára, Vít Beneš, Adam Doucha, Dominika Kvardová, Mariana Jouzová, Michal Grombiřík, Mikuláš Mrva, Vojtěch Drnek, Anežka Gebauerová, Vojtěch Procházka, Elia Moretti, Martin Opršál, Martin Švec, Jan Chalupa, Anežka Nováková
Producer: Jan Bartoš
Lead sound and recording engineer:
Jakub Hadraba (live performance, Prague),
Aaron Holloway-Nahum (studio recording, Darmstadt)
Mixing and mastering: Jon Rosenberg
Film director: Marek Bouda
Director of camera and photography: Marek Bouda
Editor: Mikuláš Svoboda
Liner notes: Timo Hoyer
Paintings: Anthony Braxton
Photography: Marek Bouda
Graphic design: Jan Matoušek
World premiere / Live performance recorded August 1, 2023, at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic.
Studio realization recorded August 3–5, 2023, at Edit-Stein-Schule, Darmstadt, Germany
Co-production partners:
Prague Music Performance
Darmstadt Summer Course
International Music Institute Darmstadt
The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Partners:
Ministry of Culture in the Czech Republic
EEA and Norway Grants 2014–2021
State Fund State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic
Special thanks for financial support to the arts councils of City and Canton of Zug, Switzerland, Pamela Stacy Fund, Marc Rubenstein, Veronika and Libor Winkler, Hildegard and Walter Schär, Znesnáze21, Ladislav Šenkyřík.
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