Perfect Night

OVERVIEW

Title: Perfect Night

Commissioned By: Tapestry Opera's Composer-Librettist Laboratory

Language: English

Producer: Tapestry Opera

Roles:

Role	Voice Type	Range ?	Character Description
Man	middle	E3-A4	Partner to woman
Woman	middle-high	A3-G5	Partner to man

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Orchestration: Piano, Organ

SYNOPSIS

A Woman and Man in bed. Naked. Or nearly. The Man reads to the Woman. Poetry by Irving Layton. They have the house to themselves. They are reconnecting, finally, after their youngest kid has headed off to college. It’s a perfect night. Until the mosquito shows up.

MUSIC DESCRIPTION

A lilting, dreamy accompaniment in the piano sets the scene for an intimate exchange. An unwanted and persistent intruder, heard in the upper register of the organ, makes an unexpected entrance.

SCORES FOR PURCHASE

Piano Vocal Scores:

Perfect Night – Piano Vocal Score

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Libretto:

Perfect Night – Libretto

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Arias & Excerpts:

Perfect Night - Perfect Night

A middle-aged couple's romantic night: the Man, reading poetry to the Woman, is distracted by the need to hunt down a mosquito in the room.

Character	Voice Type	Range ?
Man	middle	E3-A4
Woman	middle-high	A3-G5

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PREMIERE PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Premiere Production: Tapestry Briefs 2011, September 23-24, 2011 at Theatre Passe Muraille Main Space, Toronto ON

Producers: Tapestry Opera

Cast:

Role	Name
Mosquito	Xin Wang
Woman	Krisztina Szabó
Man	Keith Klassen

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Premiere Production Team:

Role	Name
Director	Sue Miner
Lighting Designer	Kimberly Purtell
Stage Manager	Isolde Pleasants-Faulkner
Production Assistant	Ann Bisch
Music Dramaturg	Wayne Strongman
Repetiteur	Dr. Christopher Foley
Repetiteur	Jennifer Tung

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CREATION

QUOTATIONS FROM CREATIVE TEAM

Perfect Night was written during LIBLAB 2011. My composer, Jana Skarecky, really wanted to work on something playful and light, and I was all for it! On a shelf in my billet’s house stood a volume of poems by Irving Layton. It all began from there, eventually turning into a piece about the ultimate futility of any quest for perfection.

- Nick Carpenter

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