SKU: SU.91770590
Libretto: Terry Teachout.
Cast: Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, 3 Tenors, Baritone, Bass-Baritone Instrumentation: 2,1 2,1 2,1 2; t-sax; 4340; timp, perc, hp; stgs Duration: ca. 90' Libretti: Terry Teachout, after the play by W. Somerset Maugham Vocal Score: available for sale (#91770591) Libretti: available for sale (#91770595) Composd: 2009 Published by: Subito Music Corporation World Premiere: Santa Fe Opera, July 25, 2009.
SKU: SU.91770595
Cast: Leslie Crosby (Soprano), A Chinese Woman (Mezzo-Soprano), Geoff Hammond (Tenor), On Chi Seng (Tenor), John Withers (Tenor), Robert Crosbie (Baritone), Howard Joyce (Bass-Baritone) Libretto: Terry Teachout, after the play by W. Somerset Maugham Duration: ca. 90' Study Score: available for sale (#91770590) Vocal Score: available for sale (#91770591) Composed: 2009 Published by: Subito Music Publishing World Premiere: Santa Fe Opera, July 25, 2009.
SKU: HL.14015279
ISBN 9780711995796.
This new Opera was first performed in 1998 in Huddersfield by Opera North. Designed for the modern stage, it utilises only a small cast and orchestra - albeit one with a good variety of percussion! The libretto is adapted by the composer from the play 'The Love of Don Pemperlin for Belisa in the Garden' by Feredico Garcia Lorca, translated into English by David Johnston. The plot revolves around the ill-fated marriage of Don Pemperlin, an ageing bachelor and his beautiful neighbour Belisa, which was suggested by Pemperlin's maid. Tricks and misunderstandings abound and because of them, Pemperlin ends by stabbing himself and dying even as Belisa proclaims her love for him.
SKU: HL.14028847
UPC: 884088810375. 8.5x11.0x0.386 inches.
Vocal Score for the Opera in Two Acts.Caritas' is in two acts, the first consisting of 12 short scenes, the second being a continuous scena. The overall form of the opera retains the architecture of Wesker's stage play, but alters the proportions, in order to create a musically dynamic form. While each scene of the first act is centred around a specific pitch, the second act is a Passacaglia, whose 'ground' is a Cantus Firmus, each repetition of which begins on a different note from those of its previous statements. These large-scale architectural features are both reflected in, and derived from, the musical material itself.
