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​The Oval Portrait
A visitor arrives at a remote castle and is disturbed by the portrait of a young woman. As her husband painted her, the picture came alive - while she lived on only in his art...
The Oval Portrait has a surreal quality which examines the territory between life and art. Not a drama in the normal sense, with dialogue between characters, for example, but a story told through the medium of song.​


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The Oval Portrait
text after Edgar Allan Poe
Narrative opera for baritone solo (The Narrator) and Voices SATB (The Book)

Instruments: Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Viola, Cello, Piano       
22 minutes     2013


First performances in association with The Opera Box at The Brunel Museum, London and The Croft Hall, Hungerford, in September 2017

Narrator    Samuel Pantcheff    
The Book    Jennifer Witton, Elizabeth Karani, Daniel Joy, James Schouten
Director  Mark Burns
Music Director/Pianist  Edward Lambert
Lighting Designer  Fridthjofur Thorsteinsson
Assistant Director  Morgan Richards


photos by Robert Workman
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    • Instrumental Works
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  • The Music Troupe
    • Productions >
      • Apollo's Mission
      • Art of Venus
      • Burning Question
      • Catfish Conundrum
      • Cloak & Dagger Affair
      • Duchess of Padua
      • Last Siren
      • Last Party on Earth
      • Masque of Vengeance
      • Opera With A Title
      • Oval Portrait
      • Parting/Buster's Trip
      • six characters
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