5020926114723

Grace Williams: The Parlour

Welsh National Opera Company; Welsh National Opera Chorus; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; B

£12.49
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Format: CD

Cat No: REAM1147

PRE-ORDER: This item will be shipped with the aim to deliver on release day.

Release Date:  04 July 2025

Label:  Lyrita - Cd / Lyrita

Packaging Type:  Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5020926114723

Genres:  Classical  Opera  

Composer/Series:  Grace Williams

  • Description

    When the Arts Council's Welsh Committee approached Grace Williams in the summer of 1959 with the offer of a commission to write a one-act opera, this was an opportunity to realise a long-cherished ambition. For her libretto, the composer turned to the French satirist Guy de Maupassant's savagely funny short story En Famille in which the apparent demise of a cantankerous matriarch uncovers the greed of family members. She wrote her own libretto for The Parlour, embellishing and refining Maupassant's story for dramatic purposes and transferring the setting from the banks of the Seine in France to the living room of a house in a Victorian seaside town. Structured in two scenes framing a brief interlude, the drama unfolds during a summer's day in 1870.The Parlour reveals Grace Williams as a natural composer for the theatre, with a flair for character delineation and development.

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