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- Michael Nyman
Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs (1994)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
- 0.1.1(bcl).ssx(asx)+barsx(fl,pic).0/1.0.0+btbn(tba).0/pf/bgtr/str(6vn,2va,2vc)
- Soprano, contralto, Tenor
- 1 hr 30 min
- Shakespeare
- English
Programme Note
This is a modified version of Nyman’s 1990 score for Karine Saporta’s opera-ballet The Princess of Milan composed while scoring Peter Greenaway’s film Prospero’s Books, with which it shares its source, The Tempest. He writes: ‘Musically I treated La Princesse de Milan as an opera, which is what, in its dance-free existence, it is. But an opera with a difference: its three singers are voices rather than roles, carriers of the text rather than characters.’