Name: Barker, Paul Alan: Some Dirty Tricks
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Barker, Paul Alan: Some Dirty Tricks

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Arrangement: for soprano and piano
Edition Type: score
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-pab1sdt1
Date Published: 9th Nov 2020

'Dirty Tricks' (1997) was an opera 'inspired' to director Chris Newell by the acrimonious Virgin Atlantic vs British Airways dispute. Stephen Chance wrote a libretto in iambic pentameter throughout, to underline the mock-heroic tone. The only female character in this otherwise testosteronic work played an Air Hostess, in various disguises. The only instrument in the opera was an electric bass guitar, which played interludes in the form of Sonnets - a strict musicalisation of the poetic form. 'Some Dirty Tricks' intersperses the three arias of the Air Hostess with two of the instrumental Sonnets, with the electric bass part recomposed for piano.

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