Michael Symmons Roberts

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Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire, in 1963. He is a poet, librettist, novelist and writer of radio and TV scripts..

He read Philosophy and Theology at Regent's Park College, Oxford. He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Manchester Metropolitan University. His collaboration with composer James MacMillan has led to two BBC Proms choral commissions, a song cycle and a new opera for the Welsh National Opera. In the 1990's he worked as a documentary maker for BBC radio and TV.

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[edit] Performed Libretti

  • The Sacrifice [Welsh National Opera] (composer James MacMillan) (winner of RPS Award 2008)
  • Parthenogenesis [widely performed in UK & abroad] (composer James MacMillan)
  • The Birds of Rhiannon [BBC Proms commission] (composer James MacMillan)
  • Quickening [BBC Proms commission] (composer James MacMillan)
  • Raising Sparks [Nash Ensemble commission] (composer James MacMillan)
  • Sun Dogs [3 Choirs Festival commission] (composer James MacMillan)
  • Chosen (composer James MacMillan)

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