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Home / Compositions / Casanova Confined

Casanova Confined (1995)

35 minutes
for baritone and tape

Text: Margaret Morgan (libretto)

Commissioned by Sydney Metropolitan Opera with funds from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council

First performance by the Sydney Metropolitan Opera: Lyndon Terracini (Casanova), John Wregg (producer), Dan Potra (designer), Barossa International Festival, Red Floor Theatre, Angaston, South Australia, 6 October 1995

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Reviews

The ingenuity of Ford's score [for Casanova Confined] owes much to the innate rhythmic flow of the unaffected text created by Morgan from Casanova's memoirs . . . This piece has everything a contemporary music theatre piece should have--a fabulous but credible story, a strictly modern and superbly crafted score with not a single superfluous word or note, or noise of any kind, and a performer of outstanding excellence.

Elizabeth Silsbury, The Advertiser

[Casanova Confined is a] tour de force, and one for regular revival I'd say.

Tristram Cary, The Australian

Instrumentations: Stage, Stage - music theatre

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