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- a chamber opera
- By:
- Duration:
- 15' 00"
- Instrumentation:
- two sopranos, 1 mezzo, 1 tenor, 1 baritone; string quartet and piano
Samples
 | Score (738k) | pp1-8 | © David Farquhar |
Availability
- This work has 3 scores
Programme Note
Alan Wells in The Listener reviewed the premiere of this work in May 1997. “Comedy was indeed to the fore … the moments of deliberate inaudibility, when the protagonist … retreated into his ‘deafness’, were wittily simulated (right down to tinnitus on the violin’s top string.”
- Text Note:
- Libretto written by the composer with Raydia d'Elsa
- Commissioned:
- Commissioned by the Pocket Opera of Wellington with funding from Creative New Zealand
- Difficulty:
- Advanced
- Funders:
Performance History
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23 May 1997 |
Performed by Pocket Opera of Wellington; Bats Theatre, Wellington |