The Undermines (opera)

See also: The Undermines

The Cave is an opera Multimédia in three acts of Steve Reich and his wife, the vidéaste Beryl Korot of 1993. Its first world was given in 1994 by the Steve Reich Ensemble directed by Paul Hillier.

This work is a triptych around the religious questions about the origins of the central figures of the Old Testament. Steve Reich and Beryl Korot raise the questions: Who is Abraham? Who is Sarah? Who is Ismaël? successively in Israëlien, a Palestinian, and an American, on the holy place common to the three religions of the Book, Jerusalem.

Act 1:

  1. Typing Music (Genesis XVI)
  2. Who is Abraham?
  3. Genesis XII
  4. Who is Sarah?
  5. Who is Hagar ?
  6. Typing Music Repeat
  7. Who is Ismael ?
  8. Genesis XVIII
  9. Who is Isaac ?
  10. Genesis XXI
  11. The casting out off Ishmael and Hagar
  12. Machpelah Commentary
  13. Genesis XXV (Sung in Hebrew according to the Torah by Ephrim Isaac)
  14. Interior off the Cellar

Act 2:

  1. Surah 3 (sung in Arabic according to the coran by Sheikh Dahoud Atalah, mufti of the Mosque Al-Aqsa)
  2. Who is Ibrahim?
  3. Who is Hajar ?
  4. The near sacrifice
  5. El Khalil Commentary
  6. Interior off the cellar

Act 3:

  1. Who is Abraham ?
  2. Who is Sarah?
  3. Who is Hagar ?
  4. Who is Ishmael ?
  5. The Binding off Isaac
  6. The Undermines Macpelah
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