"Where Britten's Opera Departs and Returns: Roman Use of the Rape of Lucretia and Mythic Reuse" (304 KB .pdf) for the Royal Danish Opera, Britten's "Rape of Lucretia" 2008-2009 Production (December, 2008), Det Kongelige Teater, Copenhagen, Denmark

"Tosca's Roman Monuments" SAN FRANCISCO OPERA MAGAZINE, (October 2004), Vol. 82, No. 2, XI-XIII.

ASCAP Patrick presented with ASCAPlus awards by ASCAP (American Society of Composers) in 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 & 2005 for music composition and performance - Sixth consecutive year. (Performances in France and Italy, among other venues).

"AMADEUS" November 2010 Patrick's new critical encyclopedia article in MASTERPLOTS 2nd rev. ed. 2010 on both the controversial "Amadeus" play (1979) by Peter Shaffer and revisionist "Amadeus" film (1984) by Milos Forman and Saul Zaentz about composers Woflgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri set around 1825 with musical retrospectives and recordings by Sir Neville Marriner.

Patrick Hunt's New Classical Music - Premiere Performance at Stanford University in October 2011 Hunt's new aria "Sappho's Song: Some Say That Beauty Is Found..." from his BYRON IN GREECE opera in progress was performed at Stanford for the SLE Humanities, sung by Mari Amend, Soprano, and accompanied by Eric Tuan, Piano, on October 11, 2011.

Patrick Hunt's Music Performed by Duke Unversity Faculty in 2010 Hunt's lieder cycle "Songs of Exile" was performed in Durham, North Carolina by Duke University faculty Eric Meyers, Baritone, and George Gopen, Piano, on October 24, 2010.

Music Performance in France August, 2008 Church of Le Prieuré Saint-Pierre, Pont-St-Esprit Patrick's composition "CANON QUADRIVOX: Choral Antiphon" sung by Stanford students under the late 18th century Baroque dome of the priory church

Music Performance in Siracusa Sicily, May 28, 2008 Grotto 'Orecchio di Dionisio' in the Paradiso Latomia, Parco Archeologico "The Ear of Dionysius: Toccata Arpeggiata for Flute and Echoes" Composed and Performed by Patrick Hunt

Byron In Greece Winter Concerts 2005-06 Following the premiere offering of three arias from Patrick's new opera BYRON IN GREECE, performed in London in late March, 2005, additional arias from this work in progress will performed in the fall, probably including "Sappho's Song", "Nauplia Serenata", "Mistra in the Morea' and "Byron at Sounion". The libretto and full opera are scheduled for completion in 2012.

Following the premiere offering of three arias from Patrick's new opera BYRON IN GREECE, performed in London in late March, 2005, additional arias from this work in progress will performed in the fall, probably including "Sappho's Song", "Nauplia Serenata", "Mistra in the Morea' and "Byron at Sounion". The libretto and full opera are scheduled for completion in 2011.

This is a tragic opera in three acts taking place in Greece and London between 1823-24 during the Greek fight for independence, when Byron aided the Palikars, independence fighters with personal bravery and his own wealth, having long championed the cause of preserving even Greek antiquities in his earlier epic poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," and culminating in his fevered death at Missolonghi.

New aria selections of BYRON IN GREECE Opera were performed at Stanford University and in London in Winter and Spring 2010.

View Program details and a photograph of Patrick Hunt, Tenor Ed Lyon and pianst Alex Soddy

View photograph: Byron in Greece Opera: with Lionnel Monnet and Elyse Nakajima

View small gallery from BYRON IN GREECE opera


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Listen to example pieces written and composed on the piano by Patrick Hunt. (be sure to adjust your volume control)

Monuments of Rome Piano Suite: "Domus Aurea"
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"Adagio for Clara Tietelbaum"
(2.8 MG download)

Theran Frieze III: "Birds Swooping over Lilies"
2.2 MG download)

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