(Vocal Score). By Henry Purcell (1659-1695). For Voice. Masterworks; Score; Voca...(+)
(Vocal Score). By Henry
Purcell (1659-1695). For
Voice. Masterworks;
Score; Vocal (Opera)
Score. Faber Edition.
Baroque; Masterwork.
Published by Faber Music
Paint Me Opéra [Conducteur] University Of York Music Press
Opera SKU: BT.MUSM570362127 Composed by Luís Tinoco. Score Only. Univers...(+)
Opera
SKU:
BT.MUSM570362127
Composed by Luís Tinoco.
Score Only. University of
York Music Press
#MUSM570362127. Published
by University of York
Music Press
(BT.MUSM570362127).
English.
Luis
Tinoco (Composer) and
Stephen Plaice (Libretto)
wrote 'Paint Me', and
Opera for six singers and
Chamber Orchestra. Rui
Horta and Joana Carneiro
are responsible for the
stage direction and the
musical direction. My
idea in writing Paint Me
was to bring together six
characters, all of whom
have a prolific
imaginative interior
life, and to explore what
they would make of each
other in the confines of
a railway compartment.
The model for my libretto
is Geoffrey Chaucer’s
The Canterbury Tales. The
travellers in Paint Me
are also on their way to
Canterbury, but they are
strangers thrown together
by the randomness of
modern travel. Their
tales are not told
publicly, but in theirown
imaginations. Most
journeys in the modern
age are anonymous and
conducted in silence. We
have only a visual or
perhaps manneristic
impression of the people
sitting opposite us. This
introspection in public
opens up a private
fantasy space, in which
our fellow travellers can
become the characters in
instant psychological
dramatisations.I wanted
to formalize each
character’s fantasy
into a full narrative.
The result is a kind of
anthology of operatic
short stories, surrounded
by the framework of an
ordinary journey.
-
Stephen Plaice.