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Home / Compositions / The Piper’s Promise

The Piper’s Promise (1986-87)

55 minutes
Opera

Text: Sue Rowley and Jim Falk (libretto)

Principal roles: Piper (dancer); The Chairman (tenor); Jack (tenor); Joy, the Crane Chaser (soprano); Joy's Daughter (soprano); Fool (spoken).  All roles except Piper and The Chairman may be taken by young (9-18 years) and/or inexperienced performers.
Chorus
2-0-2-0 / 0-2-0-0 / 4 recorders / elec guit / 1 perc / pno (4 hands) / strings / tape
(N.B. 1st trumpet, percussion and string section leaders should be professional or experienced players; other parts are relatively simple.)

Commissioned by the Australian Bicentennial Foundation

First performance by School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong. Bill Paton (Piper), Gerald English (The Chairman), David Vance (conductor), Des Davis (producer), Richard Hook (designer); Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Wollongong, 30 September 1988

Buy Score (AMC)

Instrumentations: Stage, Stage - opera, Stage - children's opera

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