The Sandman

Description:

Sketches for The Sandman were originally workshopped with ROH2 in 2010, with a section of the opera being exposed at the Royal Opera House Exposure evening in 2011, and it is in 2012 that the finished product was produced by Size Zero Opera, generously supported by the Stephen Oliver Award. The Sandman tells the story of a young girl called Olympia who is poisoned with weedkiller by a supposed childhood friend. Olympia soon finds herself falling into a coma which takes her, and us, into a world of animalistic sleep predators, kinky medical staff, medieval cows and bin bag mermaids. Olympia is stalked by the infamous Sandman.

Full scoring:

10 vocalists
Flute
Clarinet
Bassoon
Percussion
Violin
Cello
Double Bass