Claudio Faria - O Som Do SolClaudio Faria O Som Do Sol

Set in the fictional Yorkshire Dales town of Darrowby

plus cameo appearances by vocalist Mary Eiland and producer Fred Miller in a duo on English horn

The opera is perhaps best known for Dido's painfully beautiful lament When I am Laid in Earth

thanks to an in-depth knowledge of historical performance practice

and life is unpredictable and terrifying

Seated behind a primitive mixing board in a tiny Quonset hut at 64 Flicker Street

" To prepare his interpretation he consulted an original printed edition of the work

For anyone interested in traditional American 5-string banjo styles

by turns angelic and diabolical

the pianist Fou Ts'ong took Europe and then the US by storm

has been the poet laureate of the bizarre whims and cruel tangents of desire

Faust" looking almost like a secondary work