First Date
“Let’s go somewhere else. With beer and better music. Where it doesn’t matter whether you’re wearing a suit or not. Let’s talk about all the things we’re not meant to.”
First Date (2017)
A pop-up opera | 7 minutes
Composed by Lewis Murphy
Baritone, tenor, violin, bass clarinet
Commissioned by Sound Festival
Premiere: Aberdeen, November 2017
**Nominated for a Scottish Award for New Music, 2018**
Noah and James are on their first date.
They soon discover that neither of them is quite as their respective online profile described…
Watch First Date
Enjoy a film of the opera’s premiere, below, performed as part of Sound Festival 2017.
“Among pop-up operas in unusual locations was Lewis Murphy’s First Date (****), barely five minutes long, but startling lunchtime drinkers in Aberdeen’s Illicit Still and capturing the hesitancy and poignancy of a first encounter, sung with sensitivity and restraint by Kenneth Reid and Ross Cumming.”
— The Scotsman