Mark Adamo: Lysistrata

• August Release from Pentatone

Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Gil Rose present the world premiere recording of Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess, an opera by Mark Adamo. Far removed from the familiar outlines of Aristophanes’ ancient comedy, this daring reimagining reshapes a canonical text into something far more psychologically intricate and musically electrifying. Set within a richly variegated score of shifting textures and mercurial transformations, the opera unfolds as a labyrinth of mirrored themes - where melodies change allegiance, identities blur, and every gesture carries double meaning. The familiar premise of women withholding intimacy to halt war becomes the starting point for a deeper exploration of desire, power, and identity. Adamo’s libretto dismantles classical certainties, replacing caricature with complexity, and recasts Lysistrata as a figure who must confront not only the politics of war, but the far more disquieting ambiguities of love itself. Under the leadership of conductor Gil Rose, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project has become an unsurpassed advocate for 20th and 21st century American music. Alongside Adamo, this marks their collective return to PENTATONE, following their GRAMMY-nominated recording of John Corigliano's The Lord of Cries (2023).

Disc 1
1: Overture
2: Invocation
3: Peace Now!
4: Being a Bulletin...
5: Ares, Aphrodite (I)
6: Imagine, Then...
7: It's a Miracle! (I)
8: It's a Miracle! (II)
9: Had These Been Women...
10: Ares, Aphrodite (II)
11: Kleo...
12: Lysia! - Nico!
13: Peace Now! (II)
14: Madam - General...
15: Strategy Is Everything
16: Hellion, Tigress...
17: You're Not My Own
18: Are You Quite Through?
19: My Lips, Like So
20: WHAT? - I Have to Go
21: Enough. Enough
22: The Athenians Drill
23: Myrrhine's Letter (I)
24: Spartan Drill (I)
25: Peace Now (III)
26: Lysia's Letter
27: Finale
28: Peace Now! (IV)
29: Kleo! Wake Up...
30: Entrance of the Spartan Women
31: I, Lampito
32: A Simple Query
33: The Plan
34: Myrrhine's Letter (II)
35: We Seize the Acropolis...
36: Peace: Yes! Of Course...
37: Love?, Oh, Yes, Love!
38: Lampito Decides
39: Kleo? Athenians?
40: From This Day On (I)
41: That's Our Signal...
42: Introduction
43: War: Sure. I Know
44: The Capture
45: The Armies Gather
46: It's a Miracle! (III)
47: The Plan (II)
48: The Summit
49: The Spartan Strategy
50: From This Day On (II)

Disc 2
1: Sex Now! (I)
2: Too Late in the Day, Sir
3: Think?
4: Nico's Credo
5: Kinesias Decides
6: Losing Our Nerve
7: Overnight Pass
8: Kinesias Enters
9: Coaching Myrrhine
10: Negotiations
11: My Lips, Like So (II)
12: The Soldiers Beg
13: Casting
14: He Said/She Said
15: Nico's Counteroffer
16: Lysistrata
17: The Armies Approach
18: Coup De Grace
19: The Goddess Peace
20: Kleonike Makes a Point
21: Surrenders
22: Lysistrata's Prayer
23: I Am Not My Own
24: The Celebration
25: Dei Ex Machina
26: Never Will It End
27: Hymnos

Composer: Mark Adamo

Conductor: Gil Rose

Number of Discs: 2

Orchestra: Boston Modern Orchestra Project

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