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Tag Archives: Life Stories

From TV dinners to highway robbery: People Watch, Sacred Mountain and Life Stories at Tête-à-Tête

Composer Tim Benjamin gives us a masterclass in how to create a one-handed opera twice over in his Life Stories. Rest in Peace, inspired by a short story from Chekhov (Life in Questions and Exclamations, 1882), lets us hear the vivid flickers of a decaying, addled mind, fascinating both for their intensity and their randomness. If Harold Pinter had…

July 22, 2015 in New writing, Opera.

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