Rhiannon Randle (born 1993)
Rhiannon Randle is based in London. She studied at Girton College, Cambridge and earned an MPhil in Composition there, and graduated with an MA in Opera Making & Writing from the Guildhall School. She teaches at the Guildhall School and at Cambridge.
Rhiannon Randle has written music for orchestras and ensembles, but much of her work is for choruses and the stage. This is a concert performance of her 2015 one-act chamber opera Dido is Dead, which references Henry Purcell’s 1680’s opera Dido and Aeneas, which itself is based on Virgil’s Aeneid:
The composer has written:
The opera turns the myth of “Dido and Aeneas” upside down and presents an alternative outlet for Dido’s grief: divorcing her from the bonds of her own past, and freeing her from the burden which hundreds of years of culture has placed upon her.
A more extensive discussion of the opera by the composer appears in the video’s description.
This is TETRAGRAMMATON for piano quartet, composed in 2020 during lockdown:
See the video’s description for some comments by the composer.