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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