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Crime Fiction
Chamber opera in 1 act
Libretto by David Harsent
This is an opera with no story, but one that explores the critical moment within a story, a crime story, and turns the spotlight on the person who creates this moment: the Author. The primary ingredients of crime fiction are darkness, violence and damaged people plus, of course, plot: the mechanics of the piece. Dark desires have to be played out, motive has to be revealed, lines of investigation have to be followed and a resolution of some sort arrived at. But for the writer, what’s really interesting about crime fiction is not joining the dots, but the dots themselves: the set-pieces, the heightened moments of chaos and bloodshed.
In Crime Fiction, the Author is engaged in a struggle with himself to preserve unadorned the moment he’s created, but his characters, the Woman and the Man, are starting to interfere.
Edition: Performance material
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With its intriguing title, the drama in Huw Watkins’ first music theatre work moves between an author and the two characters in the murder scene he is trying to write. Librettist David Harsent describes his characters as having: ’dark desires [that] have to be played out ... motive has to be revealed ... lines of investigation have to be followed and a resolution of some sort arrived at. What’s really interesting about crime fiction, though, is not joining the dots, but the dots themselves: the setpieces, the heightened moments of chaos and bloodshed.’ Watkins describes his score as ’dark, intense and ambiguous with disturbing moments of violence.’
Orchestral Cast
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Cast
Woman · alto - Man · baritone - Author · tenor
More Information
Title:
Crime Fiction
Chamber opera in 1 act
Libretto by David Harsent
Language:
English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2008
Duration:
28 ′
World Premiere:
March 28, 2009 · Cardiff (UK)
Western Studio, Wales Millennium Centre
Gwion Thomas, man; Arlene Rolph, woman; Richard Edgar-Wilson, narator · Conductor: Michael Rafferty
Original staging: Michael McCarthy · Set design: Simon Banham
Organizer: Music Theatre Wales
(scenic) (scenic performance)
Western Studio, Wales Millennium Centre
Gwion Thomas, man; Arlene Rolph, woman; Richard Edgar-Wilson, narator · Conductor: Michael Rafferty
Original staging: Michael McCarthy · Set design: Simon Banham
Organizer: Music Theatre Wales
(scenic) (scenic performance)
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Music Theatre Wales as part of the Jerwood, Music Theatre Wales New Opera Plan
Technical Details
Product number:
LSL 10167-01
Performances
Crime Fiction
Conductor: Michael Rafferty
April 3, 2009 |
Caernarfon (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Galeri
Crime Fiction
Conductor: Michael Rafferty
March 28, 2009 |
Cardiff (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Western Studio, Wales Millennium Centre — World Premiere (szenische Aufführung)
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