A concert featuring two chamber operas, by Welsh composer Claire Victoria Roberts and Paul Frehner. The program will also include Claude Vivier‘s seminal work Paramirabo and Sonatina Op. 98 from William Mathias.
Horizon: Madog takes place in a distant future, when the world’s oceans have flooded coastal regions across the globe, and geomagnetic storms have decimated global communication systems, isolating the scant remaining survivors of societal collapse. Humanity is recovering but is still in a fragile state, and once-great nations are now fractured into island states.
The piece explores the musings of Madog, who believes he is a descendant of the legendary Welsh prince ‘Madoc’ who purportedly reached North America centuries before Columbus.
Claire Victoria Roberts, Tynged yr Iaith (‘The Fate of the Language’)
William Mathias, Sonatina, Op. 98
Claude Vivier, Paramirabo
Paul Frehner, Horizon: Madog (staged opera)
Centre for the performing and visual arts in Anglesey, North Wales
