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SELECTED OPERATIC WORKS
Be A God (2008)
for soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone, a capella
3 min.
Set to the poetry of Robert Browning, composed in homage to the Italian madrigal as prologue to the chamber opera My Last Duchess. Premiered by The Phoenix Quartet.
Score for sale.
My Last Duchess (2010)
Chamber opera in one act
for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, and ensemble of eight strings
40 min.
Libretto by Tom Dulack
Based on the famous poem by Robert Browning, along with excerpts from four other Browning poems.
Music for rental.
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My Last Duchess (2010)
Chamber opera in one act
Libretto by Tom Dulack
for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, and ensemble of eight strings
40 min.
PROGRAM NOTE
Synopsis of My Last Duchess
A party is going on in the palace of the Duke of Ferrara in honor of his engagement to the young daughter of the Count of Tyrol. Madrigals are being sung. The young fiancée wanders into a picture gallery and inadvertently opens a curtain behind which is a portrait of the Duke's late Duchess. She leaves in some confusion when the Duke, arriving with an emissary from the Count of Tyrol who is negotiating the marriage contract, scolds her for opening the curtain. The Duke then explains to the emissary, whose name is Francesco, the story of his marriage. Francesco reveals in an internal monologue that he was the Duchess's lover, and tells part of the history of the fatal love affair. The portrait of the Duchess comes alive and she furnishes more of their story. Together they sing of a love that will not die. The Duke, who has suspected the truth, and who still experiences contradictory feelings about his late Duchess, reveals that he ordered her murder—but in terms of such ambiguity that Francesco can do nothing but acquiesce in a marriage contract that may well subject the Count's daughter to the same fate.
—Theodore Wiprud
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Be A God (2008)
for soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone, a capella
3 min.
Set to the poetry of Robert Browning, composed in homage to the Italian madrigal as prologue to the chamber opera My Last Duchess. Premiered by The Phoenix Quartet.
Score for sale.
My Last Duchess (2010)
Chamber opera in one act
for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, and ensemble of eight strings
40 min.
Libretto by Tom Dulack
Based on the famous poem by Robert Browning, along with excerpts from four other Browning poems.
Music for rental.
MORE
BACK TO MUSIC CATALOG
My Last Duchess (2010)
Chamber opera in one act
Libretto by Tom Dulack
for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, and ensemble of eight strings
40 min.
PROGRAM NOTE
Synopsis of My Last Duchess
A party is going on in the palace of the Duke of Ferrara in honor of his engagement to the young daughter of the Count of Tyrol. Madrigals are being sung. The young fiancée wanders into a picture gallery and inadvertently opens a curtain behind which is a portrait of the Duke's late Duchess. She leaves in some confusion when the Duke, arriving with an emissary from the Count of Tyrol who is negotiating the marriage contract, scolds her for opening the curtain. The Duke then explains to the emissary, whose name is Francesco, the story of his marriage. Francesco reveals in an internal monologue that he was the Duchess's lover, and tells part of the history of the fatal love affair. The portrait of the Duchess comes alive and she furnishes more of their story. Together they sing of a love that will not die. The Duke, who has suspected the truth, and who still experiences contradictory feelings about his late Duchess, reveals that he ordered her murder—but in terms of such ambiguity that Francesco can do nothing but acquiesce in a marriage contract that may well subject the Count's daughter to the same fate.
—Theodore Wiprud
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