Tag: the secret

27 Sep 2005
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Ten brief works from Tapestry’s 2005 Composer–Librettist Lab­o­ra­tory, includ­ing two of mine.

8:00pm, Tapestry/Nightwood Studio, Distillery District
55 Mill Street, The Cannery (Building 58), Studio 315
Toronto, Canada
Tel: 416.537.6066
www.tapestrynewopera.com    
The Secret (2005)
Instru­men­ta­tion: sop, ten, pno
Dura­tion: 4’00
Libretto by Colleen Murphy, used by permission
Pro­gramme Note

This is the first work I did with Colleen Mur­phy, while we were par­tic­i­pat­ing in Tapestry’s LibLab in August 2005. The story is about a man who has had an acci­dent, and his unfaith­ful wife/girlfriend who acci­den­tally reveals her infi­delity as she tries to com­fort him.