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Margaret O'Connell, mezzo-soprano, as Alberte-Barbe
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Alberte-Barbe by Claude Deruet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons​

Woman Waits With Sword

A micro opera for unaccompanied singer
5 minutes
​2021

Music by Lisa Neher
Libretto by Kendra Leonard

Soprano/High Key Version Range: A3 - B5 or ossia A3-G5
Mezzo/Medium Key Version Range: G3-A5, or ossia G3-F5
Additional Transpositions available by request.
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Program Note

Woman Waits with Sword celebrates self-reliance. In 17th-century France, Alberte-Barbe D'ernécourt, Dame (noble lady) de Saint-Baslemont, has been protecting her people from invaders during the Hundred Years’ War. But when an intruder tries to claim her home and ignores her because of her sex, she becomes the Chevalier (knight or noble lord—assumed to be a man) de Saint-Baslemont and challenges him to a duel he cannot turn down.

This opera was written for mezzo-soprano Margaret O’Connell for the One Voice Project Micro Opera Festival in 2021.

Painting: Alberte-Barbe by Claude Deruet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons​

French Words in the opera

​French Words:
Alberte-Barbe D'Ernécourt [albɜɾt baɾbə dɜɾnekuɾ]
cher [ʃɛɾ]: dear
Monsieur[məsjø]:sir, mister, gentleman
Chevalier [ʃə va lje]: a knight
Dame [dam]: a noble lady
Saint-Baslemont [sɛ̃ bɑlmõ]: the name of the hamlet
(property) owned by Alberte-Barbe and her husband
de [də]: of
Copyright Lisa Neher 2021, All Rights Reserved.
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