The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera)

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a chamber opera based on Oliver Sacks’s case study about a man with visual agnosia, noted for its minimalist score and psychologically focused narrative.

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instanceOf chamber opera
basedOn The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (case study)
basedOnWorkBy Oliver Sacks
composer Michael Nyman
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
exploresTheme identity
perception
relationship between music and cognition
firstRecordingYear 1987
genre minimalist opera
hasAdaptation television film adaptation
hasInstrumentation cello
harpsichord
percussion
piano
violin
hasLibrettoSource Oliver Sacks’s clinical case study
hasRecording The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1987 recording)
intendedVenueType chamber opera space
small theatre
language English
librettist Christopher Rawlence
mainCharacter Dr P
Mrs P
The Doctor
musicStyle repetitive structures
tonal minimalism
notableCharacteristic minimalist score
psychologically focused narrative
numberOfActs 1
originalMedium stage work
partOf Michael Nyman’s stage works
premiereCity London
linked to: London, England
premiereCountry United Kingdom
premiereDate 1986-10-27
premiereLocation Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
publisher Chester Music
scoring chamber ensemble
three singers
setting neurologist’s consulting room
structure series of clinical interviews
style contemporary classical music
subjectMatter neurological disorder
psychological drama
visual agnosia
timePeriodOfComposition 1985–1986

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Michael Nyman notableWork The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera)
Michael Nyman notableWork opera "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"
subject linked to: Nyman
linked to: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera) basedOn The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (case study)
linked to: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera) hasRecording The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1987 recording)
linked to: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera)
Oliver Sacks notableWork The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
linked to: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera)