Alice Shields
Criseyde - Chamber Opera in Two Acts
Year: 2010
Duration (in minutes): 120'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: A feminist reconstruction of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Shields is composer and librettist. The opera can be performed in modern English or in a resetting of Chaucer's Middle English. Scenes have been performed by the New York City Opera VOX festival, UNC-Greensboro, and the American Virtuosi.