Evan L. SNYDER
COMPOSER // LIBRETTIST // TENOR
Evan L. Snyder
OTHER VOCAL WORKS
A Capacity for Evil - Aria Anthology
Seven arias excerpted from the opera, A Capacity for Evil. Contains 4 arias for tenor, 2 arias for mezzo-soprano, and 1 aria for bass-baritone.
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2018 / Voice & Piano
A Symptom of Years
Dramatic soliloquy, with text by Hannah Hayden. Alone in his office, a plastic surgeon grapples with the effects that time is having on his body. As he surveys his future, for the first time, he considers taking matters into his own hands. (c. 5’)
2023 / Solo Baritone
On the beach at night alone
Premiered at the 2019 Fresh Inc, this aria is an excerpt from the unfinished opera, The Clef of the Universe. A setting of Walt Whitman’s poem of the same name, the poetry is rediscovered in the voice of the opera’s protagonist, an archeologist in a distant future. (c. 8’)
2019 / High Voice & Piano
Prelude and prologue
Recorded by Contempus Initiative and John Riesen, “Prelude and Prologue” is the opening to the unfinished science fiction opera, The Clef of the Universe. The aria’s text explores the vast and colorful world of the opera, laying down the foundation on which the larger work builds its story. (c. 9’)
2022 / High Voice, Strings, & Piano
A FOOL'S GAMBIT
In this comic mini-opera, the misguided Gallus advises his nephew, Sextus, on how to seduce his uncle’s wife. His other uncle that is… or at least, so
Gallus believes. Based on the poetry of Gaius Valerius Cattullus. (c. 15 ')
2017 / Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Baritone, & Piano