A Chair in love
A contemporary comic opera on a music by Welsh/Canadian composer John Metcalf and lyrics by Quebec playwright Larry Tremblay.
Truman, an “urban angst” film maker wakes up to read the reviews of his film which premiered last night. He is heralded as a genius who “can make us believe in coitus between a knife and a spoon.” He rushes home, feeling in his heart a desperate need to love, goes back to his studio and falls in love with his chair. His dog gets jealous and complications ensue….
A Chair in love is unique. It is that rare thing – a contemporary comic opera, but also an “adult” opera suitable and accessible to youth audiences, where the instrumentalists are dramaturgically, compositionally and scenographically integrated into the stage action.
A Chair in love is conceived for four singers: Truman (baritone), the Chair (soprano), the Dog (bass), and Dogtor/Doctor (mezzo) and the wind quintette Pentaèdre. The piece is unconducted.