(What Rhymes With) Azimuth

OVERVIEW

Title: (What Rhymes With) Azimuth
Composer: Ivan Barbotin
Librettist: Liza Balkan
Commissioned By:

Tapestry Opera's Composer-Librettist Laboratory

Language: English
Producer:

Tapestry Opera

Run Time:

Roles:

Role	Voice Type	Range ?	Character Description
Woman	middle-high	B3-G#5	A writer
Man	middle-low	C3-E4	A man looking at the sky

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Orchestration: Piano

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SYNOPSIS

A summer evening. A writer is experiencing a bit of writer’s block as she is sitting in an outdoor cafe in an historic area of town. She looks around for inspiration and happens to see a man looking at the stars with binoculars. Clouds block his view, and when he looks around he catches her glance and smiles. Is he really there? Or is he just inspiration? Does it matter?

This short scene can be seen as either a chance encounter between two very different humans, or as a writer finding sudden inspiration in a new idea that she wouldn’t have thought was within her “palette.” Or perhaps it is a bit of both.

MUSIC DESCRIPTION

A steady quarter note is repeated throughout in the piano's upper register. This repetition, meant to represent the distant connection to a satellite, underpins a delicate and mesmerizing moment between two characters.

SCORES FOR PURCHASE

Piano Vocal Scores:

(What Rhymes With) Azimuth – Piano Vocal Score

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Libretto:

(What Rhymes With) Azimuth – Libretto

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Arias & Excerpts:

(What Rhymes With) Azimuth - (What Rhymes with) Azimuth

A man and woman meet for the first time on a summer's evening.

Character	Voice Type	Range ?
He	middle-high	C3-E4
She	middle-low	B3-G#5

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PREMIERE PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Premiere Production:

Tapestry Briefs 2012, September 21-23, 2012 at Tapestry Opera's Ernest Balmer Studio, Toronto ON

Producers:

Tapestry Opera

Cast:

Role	Name
Woman	Andrea Ludwig
Man	Geoffrey Sirett

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Premiere Production Team:

Role	Name
Director	Michael Hidetoshi Mori
Music Director	Dr. Christopher Foley
Music Director	Jennifer Tung
Lighting Designer	Davida Tkach
Stage Manager	Lesley Abarquez Bradley
Artistic Director	Wayne Strongman
LIBLAB Dramaturg	Michael Patrick Albano

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