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Content warning: death, murder, violence
The Laurels is a short one-act opera — a contemporary retelling of the Daphne and Apollo myth, conceived as a thriller charting one woman’s psychological unravelling in the aftermath of a harrowing crisis.
Laurel runs through the forest of a city park at night, chased by a male Stranger. He’s eviden...
The Laurels is a short one-act opera — a contemporary retelling of the Daphne and Apollo myth, conceived as a thriller charting one woman’s psychological unravelling in the aftermath of a harrowing crisis.
Laurel runs through the forest of a city park at night, chased by a male Stranger. He’s eviden...
Composer: Jeffrey Ryan
Librettist: Michael Lewis MacLennan
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Excerpts
A young woman, Laurel, runs through a dark forest, filled with anxiety and haunted by disturbing memories.
Laurel stabs the Stranger, killing him. As his body slides to the ground to rest at her feet, she begins to feel a new sense of freedom, not realising that it is at the cost of her conscience and her humanity. The aria should be performed with an improvisational blues quality over the regular pulse of the accompaniment, to convey both this sense...
In a wooded park at night, it seems like Laurel is running for her life- but it turns out she is running from the memory of the murder she committed that night.
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