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FULL DESERT JOURNEY: An Operatic Fable (Charles Turner) Natick MA 2024
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Desert Journey: An Operatic Fable
- Composer: Turner Charles
- Libretto: Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Perrin Theater, Keiter Center for Performing Arts, Natick, Massachusetts, Walnut Hill School for the Arts
- Recorded: April 19, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: unknown
- Conductor: unknown
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Walnut Hill School for the Arts
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
We are thrilled to be sharing this world premiere written especially for this year’s Voice Majors of Walnut Hill School for the Arts. The story, libretto and music were created by Composer Charles Turner. “Desert Journey: An Operatic Fable” is a modern fairy tale set in a sort of mythical desert, with elements reminiscent of the Wizard of Oz and The Little Prince. The story is of a young traveler who embarks on a solo journey through the desert to revisit an oasis, to honor a beloved uncle who passed away. He had taught her about the world and its wonders through travel and books. On her journey she meets and befriends a hungry, irritable Cobra, a Sphinx whose with an unsolvable riddle; a young Djinn who can only grant one wish, and a Dust Dervish (wind storm) that has been granted a wish for eternal life, but who now must stay in constant motion and is always exhausted. As these unlikely characters find and help one another, they realize that their journey is always better together, and that if you keep going, somewhere, there is an oasis.