Score [ePDF]
How to Build a Billy : [eScore] / Paul Smith.
Work Overview
This chamber opera explores IKEA furniture and requires two opera singers to construct a Billy bookcase while singing. The plot follows two siblings building the bookcase for their mother as they comment on IKEA culture and what buying and building furniture represents to them.
Work Details
Year: 2018
Instrumentation: Soprano, mezzo-soprano, percussion (marimba, glockenspiel, three woodblocks, three bells (C, Bb, F), cymbal, and toy piano. Four soft mallets, four hard mallets and two bows are required). An IKEA Billy bookcase is also required for performance.
Duration: 23 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
First performance: by Blush Opera, Kaylie Dunstan at How to Build a Billy (Bondi Pavilion) on 19 Jul 2018
Subjects
- In the form/style of: Opera
Performances of this work
19 Jul 2018: at How to Build a Billy (Bondi Pavilion). Featuring Blush Opera, Kaylie Dunstan.
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