Performance History
The opera was first performed on 20 April 1994 by English National Opera at the London Coliseum. This full-length version was expected by the composer to last approximately one hour and twenty minutes, but a recording of the performances takes approximately 65 minutes.
Blond Eckbert was given its American debut by the Santa Fe Opera in August 1994. In 2003, the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra gave a concert performance of the opera with slide projections.
A more lightly scored one-act "pocket" version of the opera, lasting less than an hour, was premiered on 14 June 2006 at the Linbury Studio of the Royal Opera House by The Opera Group and subsequently toured. Further performances of the pocket version by various German and Austrian groups have taken place in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
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