Stage

This section contains operas and music-theatre works, as well as children’s operas.

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Poe (1981-83)

90 minutes

opera

Text: Graham Devlin (libretto)

Principal roles: Edgar Allan Poe (bass-baritone), Virginia Clemm (soprano), Elizabeth Poe (soprano), Rufus Griswold (bass), Frances Allan/Maria Clemm (mezzo-soprano), John Allan (baritone), other roles: S-Ms-A-T-Bar-B 2(=picc)-0-1(=bass cl)-0 / 1-2-2-0 / 1 perc / hp / pno(=cel) / elec org(=hpsd) / 0-0-0-2-1

First performance by the Australian Opera (National Opera Workshop): Garrick Jones (Poe), Keith Hempton (Griswold), Luise Napier (Virginia Clemm), Rosemary Gunn (Frances Allan/Maria Clemm), Bernadette Cullen, Nicola Ferner-Waite (Literary Ladies), Gregory Tomlinson, John Antoniou, Clifford Grant (Pressgang/Washington Senators), Gordon Kember (conductor), Brian FitzGerald and John Wregg (producers), Neil Tapner (designer), Broadwalk Studio, Sydney Opera House, 1 November 1985

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Pictures of Lily (1981)

12 minutes

For treble recorder and harpsichord (with amplification, digital delay and pre-recorded tape)

Commissioned by the Yorkshire Arts Association

First performance by Joan Dixon and Peter Seymour, Theatre in the Mill, University of Bradford, 28 January 1982

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