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
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Schola Missa de Angelis - angels will sing!
In what is thought to be the first new plainsong mass in over 60 years (since Duruflé's Requiem of 1947), Roxanna has used the famous Missa de Angelis as a basis for the London Oratory School Schola's new mass which will be premiered on 7th May 2010 at St James's Church, Spanish Place, London accompanied by brass octet. There will be two versions available - this choral (also in an organ version) and a congregational one which will be pared down to something everyone can sing at their weekly masses. Come and hear the angels - click here to buy tickets.
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