An opera never performed as planned.
Trivia about this composition:
A Gangrene Hangover was a chamber opera with libretto, written in 1996. The opera begins as a continuance of an earlier story.
The earlier story has been about a man and his wife who lived in a windmill, which also had the function as a church. In this they ruled their own parish by making flour, the only source for the residents to make bread. One day the lady started to make flour out of grain infected with the lethal fungus ergot. If a person eats ergot, he or she will get gangrene in the intestines, rot from the inside and suffer an awful death. And so the housewife killed everyone in the parish. The opera starts with her husband being the last one to die. The recent widow is then left alone in the windmill. She eats the bread herself, and so the story develops around her going gradually insane, seeing things and developing an imaginary, sexual relationship with a dwarf of her hallucinations, before she dies.
The full opera was never performed, only rehearsed, recorded and performed as fragments. Some parts is released as instrumentals.
Album(s) in which this composition has appeared:
Utopian Dances (as Türbø Meuz, Vital Requiem Finale II and My Sexless Beloved)
Fevergreens (as Tango on the Crest of Reality)
Money Will Ruin Everything (as Tango on the Crest of Reality)
Reconstructed content:
- Instrumental overture
- A Gangrene Hangover(?) (Vital Requiem Finale II variations)
- Where is My Depth? (Tango on the Crest of Reality)
- I’m a Balloon
- Moonstricktly in Love With a Figment Foetus (Türbø Meuz)
- Moonstricktly #2
- Valse Morbido
- Unidentified part (Utopian Dance)
- Dob’zangas Skin-Off Tango (The Choco King)
- My Sexless Beloved