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The Roswell Incident
Title
The Roswell Incident
Date
Wednesday 15th January 1997
Company
Music Theatre Wales
Brief
This chamber opera commission by MTW was intended to tour around schools and draw in an audience of people not normally exposed to opera.

The subject of 'The Roswell Incident' was a possible crash in the wilderness of New Mexico in 1947 of an unidentified flying object, and the mythology and speculation which have surrounded this event.  Initially scored for child singer, soprano, tenor and baritone with string quartet, piano, percussion and electro-acoustic soundworld.