Roxanna Panufnik - Classical Composer

Opera

The Music Programme (1999)

Chamber opera commissioned by Teatr Wielki Opera Naradowa (Polish National Opera) for their Millennium season.
World Premiere in Warsaw, 7th April 2000. UK Premiere BOC Covent Garden Festival (London) 25th May 2000.

Inkle and Yarico (1996)

Opera from the original Harpsichord score by Dr. Samuel Arnold arranged and orchestrated with a blend of steel pans and 18th century authenticity.
Based on a Barbadian legend-one of the first anti-slavery plays ever written in the 18th Century.
Commissioned and performed by the Holders Season, Barbados 15th March 1997.

Time Piece (1995) for 3 female voices, 2 male voices, guitar and cello

Text: Christina Jones
Time Piece is about the upper floor of a museum where the largest collection of clocks in the country is housed. Working late one night, Miss Patina the curator discovers she is not alone. Time stands still-even the talkative clocks are silenced by the mysterious visitor...
Commissioned by Theatre Royal and Opera Works
First performed at the Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, 26th August 1995. Directed by Wilf Judd and conducted by Michael Finnissy.
7 minutes

Hear a sample from Roxanna's "Beastly Tales" CD - The Hare and the Tortoise