{"id":2,"date":"2013-05-07T16:04:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T16:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2013-09-20T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T14:33:56","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>NERON KAISAR<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>is a major work for chamber orchestra, small brass ensemble, two solo harpists, chorus, and vocal soloists. Composed by John Peel, with libretto in Greek, Latin, and English by M. D. Usher, selections from this work-in-progress were performed with piano accompaniment at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, on March 13, 2013. This site contains links to recordings of that performance, to the libretto, and to an overview of the work as a whole. It also contains music samples, conspectus, and libretto to Peel and Usher&#8217;s previous collaboration, <em>Voces Vergilianae<\/em> (for which, click on <strong>VOCES<\/strong> in the banner menu).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <i>dramatis personae<\/i> of <strong>NERON KAISAR<\/strong> are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Nero<\/strong>, Emperor of Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . Tenor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Seneca<\/strong>, Philosopher, and Nero\u2019s Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bass-Baritone<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Tigellinus<\/strong>, Chief of the Praetorian Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bass-Baritone<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Epaphroditus\/Phaon\/Sporus<\/strong>, Nero&#8217;s Freedmen and Courtiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contralto<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Sibyl<\/strong>, An Ecstatic Prophetess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soprano<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Poppaea<\/strong>, Nero\u2019s Mistress, and Second Wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soprano<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Octavia<\/strong>, Nero\u2019s First Wife, the Former Emperor Claudius\u2019 Daughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \u00a0. . . Mezzo-soprano<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Agrippina<\/strong>, Nero\u2019s Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mezzo-soprano<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Chorus <\/strong>. . . (Representing variously: Senate, Muses, Plebs, Nero\u2019s musical competitors, Jews and Christians)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NERON KAISAR is a major work for chamber orchestra, small brass ensemble, two solo harpists, chorus, and vocal soloists. Composed by John Peel, with libretto in Greek, Latin, and English by M. D. Usher, selections from this work-in-progress were performed with piano accompaniment at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, on March 13, 2013. This site contains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}