Programme Note
BRIEF PROGRAMME NOTE
This is a modified version of Nyman’s 1990 score for Karine Saporta’s opera-ballet The Princess of Milan composed while scoring Peter Greenaway’s film Prospero’s Books, with which it shares its source, The Tempest. He writes: ‘Musically I treated La Princesse de Milan as an opera, which is what, in its dance-free existence, it is. But an opera with a difference: its three singers are voices rather than roles, carriers of the text rather than characters.’