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World Premiere Recording of Douglas J. Cuomo's Savage Winter Released on Albany Records

May. 31, 2024

Albany Records has released the world premiere recording of Douglas J. Cuomo's chamber opera, Savage Winter. The album is available as a CD and for streaming on all major platforms and features Cuomo's long time collaborators and friends: Tony Boutté (voice), Frank London (trumpet), and Alan Johnson (music director, conductor, keyboards), joined by the composer on guitar. Click here to stream and purchase the album.


World Premiere Recording of Douglas J. Cuomo's Savage Winter, (© Albany Records, 2024)

Produced by American Opera Projects and Pittsburgh Opera, Savage Winter is a monodrama for tenor, three instrumentalists and electronics, with text that is a contemporary reimagining of Wilhelm Müller's poetry, originally set by Franz Schubert in his Winterreise song cycle. An intensely modern work, Savage Winter is infused with acid jazz, a punk energy and an electronic soundscape depicting a portrait of lost love, longing, and regret. Since its premiere at Pittsburgh Opera in 2017, the work has been performed at BAM, Aperio Music in Houston, and PS21 in Chatham NY.

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Douglas J. Cuomo
Savage Winter (2017)
for tenor (amplified), trumpet (amplified, with improvisatory sections), piano (keyboards), electric guitar (with improvisatory sections), and electronics
Text based on poetry by Wilhem Müller, freely adapted by Douglas J. Cuomo
75'

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