love thy neighbour a capella opera for four singers
Edward Top (conducting), Joel Klein, CD Saint, Katherine Landry, Siri Olesen, Tom Cone (foreground) during a rehearsal of Love Thy Neighbour.
Preview the score here: Edward Top_Tom Cone - Love Thy Neighbour_Score p1.pdf
Libretto by Tom Cone
This 10-minute opera is set in Jerusalem where four characters spy on their neighbour every Friday night. This particular evening they witness a terrible tragedy.
Seduction and murder, voyeurism and indifference. In this a capella opera all accompanying musical elements are woven into the fabric of the four characters: Ronnie and Nancy, George and Laura.
For performance rights and ordering the score, please contact Edward Top
The next scheduled performances of Love Thy Neighbour will take place on September 30, 2011 at 8 pm at Music on Main’s Modulus Festival and during the Mahler Plus Festival of the Vancouver Symphony on January 22, 2012.
