![]() As an avant-garde rock musician, he founded the rock band Can in 1968 and performed with them as its keyboardist for ten years. ![]() Schmidt had studied composition with Stockhausen and Ligeti in the 1950s. ![]() Irmin Schmidt and his librettist Duncan Fallowell, the first to base on opera on the work, began working on it in the early 1990s after receiving a commission from the Wuppertaler Bühnen. Benjamin Britten had contemplated composing an opera based on the trilogy in the 1950s, but then changed his mind. Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy, on which the opera is based, is a Gothic tale recounting the rise of the evil Steerpike from a kitchen boy in Gormenghast castle to total domination of the castle and its aristocratic inhabitants. ![]() It premiered at the Opernhaus Wuppertal on 15 November 1998. Gormenghast is an opera in three acts composed by Irmin Schmidt to an English-language libretto by Duncan Fallowell, based on Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy. ![]()
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