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2000. Irmin Schmidt founder of the legendary group CAN has written an opera: GORMENGHAST. Commissioned by Wuppertaler Bohnen, the work was performed in the English language and premiered at the Wuppertal Opera House in 1998 and ran for nine months in Wuppertal and at the Musiktheater Gelsenkirchen. Times critic Rodney Milnes wrote: "If Richard Strauss had written rock music, this is what it would have sounded like - gloriously, unashamedly lush." This is the CD release from 2000 with excerpts of the Gormenghast Production in Wuppertal. Inspired by Mervyn Peake's masterpiece of gothic fantasy, English novelist Duncan Fallowell wrote the libretto in St. Petersburg, combining romance, comedy and futurism into an adventure of epic strangeness peopled by unforgettable characters. The opera is in 3 acts and centres on the rise and fall of Steerpike, a courageous, clever and charming kitchen-boy who becomes by degrees the murderous tyrant of Gormenghast Castle and its domain. In the process he bewitches and destroys Fuchsia the daughter of Gormenghast's opium-addicted ruler. Finally he meets his own dramatic death. The other inhabitants of this vivid decaying realm are drawn into the terrible tale. In both libretto and music, this integration of high culture and popular culture is not like anything which has gone before: it is achieved with perfect naturalness, carrying the art of opera forward into a new phase. The result is both accessible and magically unexpected : GORMENGHAST is a major addition to the world of musical theatre.

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