The Trial
The Trial is an English-language opera in two acts, with music by Philip Glass to a libretto by Christopher Hampton, based on the 1925 eponymous novel by Franz Kafka. The opera was a joint commission between Music Theatre Wales, the Royal Opera House, London, Theater Magdeburg and Scottish Opera.
As produced by Music Theatre Wales, the opera received its world premiere on 10 October 2014, in a production by Music Theatre Wales at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London). The German premiere at the Theater Magdeburg occurred on 2 April 2015. Scottish Opera first staged the work at the Theatre Royal Glasgow on 24 January 2017. The North American premiere was on 4 June 2017 at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. For all of these stagings, Michael McCarthy was the stage director, and the set design was by Simon Banham, both from Music Theatre Wales.
Movements
- Act One: Scene 1: The Arrest: Franz, Willem, The Inspector
- Act One: Scene 2A: The Landlady, Frau Grubach
- Act One: Scene 2B: The Tenant Next Door, Fräulein Bürstner
- Act One: Scene 3: The Court
- Act One: Scene 4: Washerwoman, The Student, The Court Usher (Washerwoman's husband)
- Act One: Scene 5A: At the Bank: Uncle Albert
- Act One: Scene 5B: The Flogger
- Act Two: Prelude
- Act Two: Scene 1: Uncle Albert takes K. to visit Lawyer Huld and Leni (Huld's maid-cum-nurse)
- Act Two: Scene 2: Titorelli the painter
- Act Two: Scene 3: Lawyer Huld's House: Block (another client), Leni
- Act Two: Scene 4: The Priest
- Act Two: Scene 5: Journey to a Quarry