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In a one-man verse drama, Jack Topps recounts how his father's murder led him into a criminal life.
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In a one-man verse drama, Jack Topps recounts how his father's murder led him into a criminal life.
Soprano Mrs. Green sings the ballad The Cruel Mother while actors and mime perform an English mummers’ play. The two strands remain self-contained until the final tableau, when Father Christmas completes Mrs. Green’s story and she briefly enters the mummers’ playing area.
The Art Banker pursues a plan to clone Francisco Goya using his long-lost skull, while characters embodying craniometry, eugenics and art criticism contest the project. Goya appears in a fantastical sequence rather than as the result of cloning.
A television opera about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, incorporating letters and other texts attributed to him. A described scene depicts Joseph Haydn accusing Mozart of plagiarism in court, with Michael Nyman appearing as a court pianist asked to play the disputed passage.
Patsy Bear, a boxer who cannot read or recognize numbers reliably, meets Avril Ainger, a mathematics lecturer. She helps him learn basic arithmetic, though Patsy is more interested in sex. Avril discusses her abusive first marriage and asks Patsy to leave boxing; after she cuts up his gear, he becomes ill and falls into a coma. His doctor says conversation may restore his memory. In the final scene, Avril pushes him in a wheelchair along the street where they met, and they repeat their counting routine.
Twelve-year-old Michael meets aging Dada artist Kurt Schwitters while collecting bus tickets. Schwitters, a refugee facing deportation, befriends Michael and gradually earns his mother’s trust. He hopes the mother will marry him so he can become a naturalized citizen, though she has no romantic interest. When Schwitters gives Michael an unrideable Dada bicycle instead of the bicycle he wanted, the boy explains that he values its uniqueness. Schwitters, believing he is too eccentric for the family, decides to leave, but Michael asks him to stay.
A setting of an abridged selection of text from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, arranged in seventeen sections. The first version was an opera-ballet titled La Princesse de Milan, with dancers portraying characters; later opera-only version includes more of Shakespeare’s text.
A neurologist investigates the condition of Dr. P., a singer with visual agnosia.
An unfinished opera project adapting separate passages from Laurence Sterne’s novel. The excerpts include music for sections from Volumes IV, V, VI, and VII; the project remains on hold.
In a one-man verse drama, Jack Topps recounts how his father's murder led him into a criminal life.
Soprano Mrs. Green sings the ballad The Cruel Mother while actors and mime perform an English mummers’ play. The two strands remain self-contained until the final tableau, when Father Christmas completes Mrs. Green’s story and she briefly enters the mummers’ playing area.
The Art Banker pursues a plan to clone Francisco Goya using his long-lost skull, while characters embodying craniometry, eugenics and art criticism contest the project. Goya appears in a fantastical sequence rather than as the result of cloning.
A television opera about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, incorporating letters and other texts attributed to him. A described scene depicts Joseph Haydn accusing Mozart of plagiarism in court, with Michael Nyman appearing as a court pianist asked to play the disputed passage.
Patsy Bear, a boxer who cannot read or recognize numbers reliably, meets Avril Ainger, a mathematics lecturer. She helps him learn basic arithmetic, though Patsy is more interested in sex. Avril discusses her abusive first marriage and asks Patsy to leave boxing; after she cuts up his gear, he becomes ill and falls into a coma. His doctor says conversation may restore his memory. In the final scene, Avril pushes him in a wheelchair along the street where they met, and they repeat their counting routine.
Twelve-year-old Michael meets aging Dada artist Kurt Schwitters while collecting bus tickets. Schwitters, a refugee facing deportation, befriends Michael and gradually earns his mother’s trust. He hopes the mother will marry him so he can become a naturalized citizen, though she has no romantic interest. When Schwitters gives Michael an unrideable Dada bicycle instead of the bicycle he wanted, the boy explains that he values its uniqueness. Schwitters, believing he is too eccentric for the family, decides to leave, but Michael asks him to stay.
A setting of an abridged selection of text from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, arranged in seventeen sections. The first version was an opera-ballet titled La Princesse de Milan, with dancers portraying characters; later opera-only version includes more of Shakespeare’s text.
A neurologist investigates the condition of Dr. P., a singer with visual agnosia.
An unfinished opera project adapting separate passages from Laurence Sterne’s novel. The excerpts include music for sections from Volumes IV, V, VI, and VII; the project remains on hold.