Man in Avalanche

OVERVIEW

Title: Man in Avalanche
Composer: Norbert Palej
Librettist: David James Brock
Commissioned By: Tapestry Opera's Composer-Librettist Laboratory
Language: English
Producer: Tapestry Opera
Roles:

Role	Voice Type	Range ?	Character Description
Woman	high	D#4-C6	The man's wife
Mountain	middle-high	C#4-Bb5	Death
Man	middle-low	Ab2-Bb4	A man trapped and encased by an avalanche

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Orchestration: Piano

SYNOPSIS

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Trapped and encased by an avalanche, a man thinks only of his wife and finding a way out. Meanwhile, his wife is filled with suspicion. She thinks he’s having an affair, and his silence is the proof. Between the two, Death sings of the ways it brings about disaster.

MUSIC DESCRIPTION

A slow pulse in the piano grounds this scene as, separately, a man and his wife sing in distress: the man, buried in an avalanche, sings in desperation, his voice reaching into falsetto, while his wife, unaware, worries over increasingly abrupt and panicked phrases that he is having an affair. In a stoic and simple rising melody wedged between both voices, Death repeats relentlessly how it can take many forms.

SCORES FOR PURCHASE

Piano Vocal Scores:

Man in Avalanche – Piano Vocal Score

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Arias & Excerpts:

Man in Avalanche - Man in Avalanche

On a solitary walk a Man gets buried by an avalanche; a Woman thinks his absence means he is cheating on her.

Character	Voice Type	Range ?
Man	middle-low	Ab2-Bb4
Woman	high	D#4-C6
Death	middle-high	C#4-Bb5

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PREMIERE PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Premiere Production: Tapestry Briefs 2010, September 23-25, 2010 at Tapestry Opera's Ernest Balmer Studio, Toronto ON
Producers: Tapestry Opera
Cast:

Role	Name
Woman	Carla Huhtanen
Mountain	Kimberly Barber
Man	Peter McGillivray

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Premiere Production Team:

Role	Name
Director	Sue Miner
Lighting Designer	Kimberly Purtell
Music Director	James Bourne
Music Director	Dr. Christopher Foley
Stage Manager	Isolde Pleasants-Faulkner
LIBLAB Dramaturg	Michael Patrick Albano
Producer	Susan Worthington
LIBLAB Music Dramaturg	Wayne Strongman
Production Manager	Matthew Byrne

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