A different story
Premiere
15/03/2016 - OPERA MAKING WORKSHOP - Room 2.1 - Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT) - Patrycja Gabrel (Soprano), Stephen Place (Male Voice) and Jorge Ramos (Electronics).
Text
by Ana Djaimilia Almeida
Inside a teenager girl bedroom, 7.00 a.m.
(Stephanie wakes up with the sound of a new email; she reads the email subject really slowly)
Stephanie: Movie script commission? Is this spam? Stephanie Khan. Stephanie Khan. It can’t be…
(Stephanie’s dad knocks at the door)
Dad: Stephanieare you awake?
(Stephanie reading the email and thinking out loud)
Stephanie: More than ever.
Dad: Stephanie!
(Stephanie begins to write the script speaking out loud)
Stephanie: Many years ago, an old lady arrived to a small village in Nicaragua holding a white rabbit inside a cage…
Dad: Time for school!
Programme notes
A 5-minute opera scene from the workshop in opera creation by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama [Julian Philips (Composer) and Stephen Plaice (Libretist)].
Written in 2016 as part of my Undergraduate Degree in Music — Composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT).
© PRS/MCPS/SPA ISWC T-045.705.825-1
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Premiere
15/03/2016 - OPERA MAKING WORKSHOP - Room 2.1 - Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT) - Patrycja Gabrel (Soprano), Stephen Place (Male Voice) and Jorge Ramos (Electronics).
Text
by Ana Djaimilia Almeida
Inside a teenager girl bedroom, 7.00 a.m.
(Stephanie wakes up with the sound of a new email; she reads the email subject really slowly)
Stephanie: Movie script commission? Is this spam? Stephanie Khan. Stephanie Khan. It can’t be…
(Stephanie’s dad knocks at the door)
Dad: Stephanieare you awake?
(Stephanie reading the email and thinking out loud)
Stephanie: More than ever.
Dad: Stephanie!
(Stephanie begins to write the script speaking out loud)
Stephanie: Many years ago, an old lady arrived to a small village in Nicaragua holding a white rabbit inside a cage…
Dad: Time for school!
Programme notes
A 5-minute opera scene from the workshop in opera creation by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama [Julian Philips (Composer) and Stephen Plaice (Libretist)].
Written in 2016 as part of my Undergraduate Degree in Music — Composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT).
© PRS/MCPS/SPA ISWC T-045.705.825-1
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Premiere
15/03/2016 - OPERA MAKING WORKSHOP - Room 2.1 - Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT) - Patrycja Gabrel (Soprano), Stephen Place (Male Voice) and Jorge Ramos (Electronics).
Text
by Ana Djaimilia Almeida
Inside a teenager girl bedroom, 7.00 a.m.
(Stephanie wakes up with the sound of a new email; she reads the email subject really slowly)
Stephanie: Movie script commission? Is this spam? Stephanie Khan. Stephanie Khan. It can’t be…
(Stephanie’s dad knocks at the door)
Dad: Stephanieare you awake?
(Stephanie reading the email and thinking out loud)
Stephanie: More than ever.
Dad: Stephanie!
(Stephanie begins to write the script speaking out loud)
Stephanie: Many years ago, an old lady arrived to a small village in Nicaragua holding a white rabbit inside a cage…
Dad: Time for school!
Programme notes
A 5-minute opera scene from the workshop in opera creation by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama [Julian Philips (Composer) and Stephen Plaice (Libretist)].
Written in 2016 as part of my Undergraduate Degree in Music — Composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT).
© PRS/MCPS/SPA ISWC T-045.705.825-1
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