Butchering - for Tenor, Baritone and Piano Music by Luciano Williamson Text by Kaite O'Reilly Butchering was a collaboration between composer and librettist as part of Kaite O'Reilly's Creative Wales Award 'The Performative Power of Words with Music', funded by Arts Council Wales 2017/18.

Butchering

a micro opera

2018 | 7’

tenor, baritone, piano

Libretto by Kaite O’Reilly

Written with Kaite O’Reilly as part of her Creative Wales Award

Butchering takes the opening of Kaite's 1998 play Yard and reimagines it in an entirely new context. Post-WWI, the local butcher is haunted by his actions on the Western Front.

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