Click here to download a pdf of the complete libretto.
Click here to download Act One of the score (1mb)
Click here to download Act Three of the score (4.8mb)
Please contact Camilla Cancantata to find out more.
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Carbon Chronicles' is a participatory opera blending science, myth and politics. It uses music and humour to provoke discussion and inspire action to reduce our dependency on a petroleum-based, exploitative global system, in order to live sustainably in a low-carbon society. A chorus of elemental beings sing of their evolution into resources (minerals and fossil fuels) exploited by humans, with the consequent planetary crisis and climate chaos. At the end of the piece, with global collapse imminent, the participants are invited to imagine the scenario that expresses their hopes or fears for the future.
The opera is written so that anyone can take part, of any age, with or without musical experience, whether as singers/performers, makers, or just interested people who would like to engage with the ideas. Various versions of Carbon Chronicles have now been performed in Norwich, Edinburgh, London and the 2010 Festival of Jim in Sussex. It is going to be the basis of a youth project in Llandrindod Wells in October 2011. Click here to download a pdf of the complete libretto. Click here to download Act One of the score (1mb) Click here to download Act Three of the score (4.8mb) Please contact Camilla Cancantata to find out more. |
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