Persephone’s Nightmare Listen This music is for a scene late in act 3 (there are currently 3 acts). Persephone is on her journey back to the underworld after seeing Demeter her mother for the last time. Once a powerful and beautiful kingdom that relieved the dead of their suffering it Read more
Music Study No 2 Seven Sisters Dancing – I wrote a few images down on a piece of paper (wind over ice – etc.) and then my wife Allison came up with the image of seven sisters dancing – an old Iroquois Legend that I think speaks very nicely to Read more
Post by Don Macdonald – Nicola included a few references to images in her early notes about the opera: ” Stilts, skeletons, a march”. I created the image below using photo shop for fun to see what I could come up with (I’m a composer not an artist believe me). Read more
Welcome to the KHAOS website. Composer Don Macdonald and writer/librettist Nicola Harwood have been commissioned by the Amy Ferguson Institute to write a full length opera called “KHAOS”, a re-imagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter that reinforces our understanding of the seasonal cycles of death and regeneration. Set Read more
Study #1) NOV 2009 Compilation. This piece is a study exploring a potential thematic concept for Persephone, some darker harmonic ideas later that may work for the world that Hades has created and an ending that explores the tragedy of the ill fated romance between Hades and Persephone. Early days Read more