Work
The Uses of Adversity
chamber opera
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About
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."
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the Pocket Opera of Wellington with funding from Creative New Zealand
Text note
Libretto written by the composer with Raydia d'Elsa
Performance history
23 May 1997: Performed by Pocket Opera of Wellington; Bats Theatre, Wellington