Opera and Oratorio
Holocaust Requiem; adult choir, children’s choir, soprano solo,
baritone solo, narrator, orchestra. Settings of children’s poems from
Terezin, with liturgical texts from the Latin Requiem and Jewish Kaddish
(Prayer for the Dead). Duration 55 minutes (1985). The Wolf of Gubbio;
children’s opera in two acts, book by Peter Porter. Children’s chorus
and 7 soloists, accompaniment piano, flute, percussion. Duration 1 hour
30 minutes (1980).Echoes , a panorama of the history of the City of
London for the young, commissioned for the City of London Festival 1986,
book by Ursula Vaughan Willliams (1985). Insect Play , adaptation from
Karel Capek’s original play by Ursula Vaughan Willliams. Chamber Opera
in 3 acts, approx. 10 singers and 12 instrumentalists. Duration 1 hour
30 minutes (1984). Trotsky in New York , a musical with book by Anthony
Burgess. Six soloists and chorus, small orchestra. Duration 1 hour 45
minutes (1995). A Cartload of Shoes :Voices of the Oppressed Settings of
texts from 10 countries: narrator, soprano, tenor, piano, percussion,
strings. Duration 45 minutes. (1997). Numbers , text by Nelly Sachs:
chorus and orchestra. Duration 17 minutes.
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