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songs from the reactor
Performed in collaboration with Geoffrey king and Mark Rogers as part of the Royal Academy of Music Students Create Festival. This performance includes looped recordings, microphone, and semi-staging.
Dover Beach by Samuel Barber
performed in collaboration with the Kyan Quartet as part of the Royal Academy of Music’s Kaleidoscopic Chamber Festival
“Irgend wo, irgend wann…”
from Silent Night
Anna Sørenson, a German opera singer whose career has been halted by the dire events of World War 1, is with her husband Nicklaus at basecamp during the Christmas Truce of 1914. As news of the truce slowly reaches the headquarters of each French, Scottish, and German troupe, the lives of Nicklaus and Anna are put at risk. As the two plead for a French Asylum, Anna sings of the horrors, torture, and humanity of each person lost in the foggy blanket of war, emphasizing how the tragic deaths on the field echo and shatter the lives off it.
“Wie du warst” from Der Rosenkavalier
We meet the young Octavian after a night of romantic firsts. Filled with new emotions, he talks to his lover Marschallin trying to find the right words to describe the fluttering in his heart and ponders what his role in her life will be.