The Death of Chatterton Excerpts

Excerpts from the chamber opera by Matthew Dewey http://www.matthewdewey.com

SYNOPSIS
George Meredith, in an attic room in the nineteenth century, prepares himself to model for painting "The Death of Chatterton", and wonders at how the death occurred. Chatterton himself tells the tale from the seventeen hundreds -- and Rowley (a fifteenth century monk of Chatterton's creation) convinces us of Chatterton's genius back two hundred years before. The key however, lies not with Meredith, Rowley nor Chatterton but with Chatterton's first biographer, John Dix - who delights in revealing a final convolution. Who is Thomas Chatterton? -- and when did he die?

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Music

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• classical
• religious
• opera
• dewey
• matthew
• chatterton
• richardson
• christopher
• chamber
• australian
• tasmanian
• composer

[MrWilum]

Quite, quite wonderful. Thank you!