
PETER JAMES LEARN
Composer
SCORES AND RECORDINGS
VOCAL MUSIC
NERO MONOLOGUES (2017) 60'
Chamber Opera; Soprano and Dancer/Actor featured
Score Sample:
Full Opera - 8/8/17
London Performance
Sarah Toth, Bertie Baigent, Phaedra Ensemble Libretto: Sarah Toth/Geoffrey Lehmann
Revised aria: "Ode to the Beauty of the World" (US Premiere)
ACT I EXCERPT - Sinfonia - Aria:
Galba Does not Exist - Recit: A Vision
Addressed to Emperors of the Future -
Mono: Advice for Emperors
ACT II EXCERPT - Aria: Notes for a
New Civilization - Mono: Eating with
Friends - Mono: Our Sun-God at Home
with Poppaea
ACT III EXCERPT - Mono: Imagined
Scenes from the Second Half of My Life -
Aria/Trope: In Un Sospir - Arr.: Sleep is
Supposed to Be (Copland)
WHITMAN SONGS (2015) 15' (3 Songs)
Soprano and String Quartet (Text from Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca)
Score Sample:
Video:
ODE TO WALT WHITMAN (LORCA)
MIRACLES (WHITMAN)
Commissioned by Rebekah Smeltzer
A CLEAR MIDNIGHT (WHITMAN)