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Martin Butler
Libretto by
Stephen Pruslin
Craig's Progress
Vocal and instrumental scores and parts on hire
978-0-19-335484-5 19 September 1994
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An operatic adventure story
Forces or Category
Opera
Duration
105 minutes
Difficulty
Moderately difficult to Difficult
Orchestration
2 fl (both+picc), 2 ob (II+ca), 2 cl (both+bcl), 2 bn, 2 hn, pn (4 hand), plus perc played by instrumentalists
Programme Notes
Craig's Progress
was commissioned by Mecklenburgh Opera. It was conceived as a modern-day
opera buffa
. Subtitled
An Operatic Adventure Story
, and with a libretto by Stephen Pruslin, the opera follows Craig's journey from naivety to wisdom, from comic-book character to real person. Five singers perform 49 roles as diverse as reindeer, bartenders, Gods, and planets, as well as an Ice Cream Vendor, a Gingerbread Witch, The Fiery Stoker, and many other characters. The combination of operatic and comic-book styles makes this fantasy-world both accessible and humourous.
Craig's Progress
, was first performed in June 1994 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
Martin Butler
(b.1960)
Libretto by
Stephen Pruslin
Martin Butler was born in Romsey, England, in 1960 and studied at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1983 he received a Fulbright Award for study at Princeton University, USA, where he was resident until 1987. From 1998-1999 Martin was Composer-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in the United States. He is currently Professor of Music at the University of Sussex. Butler's works are widely performed and broadcast both in the UK and abroad.
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