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VWV 56 · Duet · 2025 ·

The Crown and the Condemned

Dramatic Duet — with Isabella Laurent

Catalogue
VWV 56
Form
Dramatic Duet
Scoring
Baritone, soprano & orchestra
Composed
2025
Duration
6:50

A queen and her condemned advisor in the hour before his execution, bound by a love neither will name and a sentence she cannot revoke. Power and grief war between them in clashing, overlapping lines that resolve only into a shared, unbearable silence.

From The Laurent Duets · NV-009

Performance materials +
Forces
Baritone, soprano & orchestra
Tessitura
Baritone solo (G2–F4)
Materials
Full score, Study score, Set of orchestral parts
Availability
On hire · Voss Editions
Grade
Advanced — professional ensemble
ISMN
979-0-706056-392-3
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