Iain Bell

A Christmas Carol is a work by composer Iain Bell, a Chamber Opera in five staves for Dramatic Tenor and Chamber Ensemble. Featuring a libretto by Simon Callow, the work is an adaptation of Charles Di...

Iain Bell's A Harlot's Progress is an Opera in six scenes, featuring a libretto by Peter Ackroyd based upon William Hogarth's 1730 etchings of the same name. This is a full score for Soprano, Mezzo-So...

Iain Bell's A Harlot's Progress is an Opera in six scenes, featuring a libretto by Peter Ackroyd based upon William Hogarth's 1730 etchings of the same name. This is a vocal score for Soprano, Mezzo-S...

A Christmas Carol is a work by composer Iain Bell, a Chamber Opera in five staves for Dramatic Tenor and Chamber Ensemble. Featuring a libretto by Simon Callow, the work is an adaptation of Charles Di...

Commissioned by Freunde und Förderer der Musikalischen Akademie des Bayerischen Staatsorchesters. First performance 20 July 2015 at Haus der Kunst as part of the Munich Opera Festival 2015 with T...

The chorus score for Bell’s 2019 opera, Stonewall. Commissioned by New York City Opera, and with a libretto by Mark Campbell, the opera was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Ston...

For soprano and orchestra. The vocal score to the mad scene from Bell’s 2013 opera A Harlot’s Progress. This scene charts the mental and emotional descent of Moll Hackabout who is in the final stages...

Come Away, Death for tenor and orchestra is an adaptation of a movement from Iain Bell’s song cycle These Motley Fools.

Presented as a standalone piece, Intermezzo was written as an interlude between two of the songs in Bell's song cycle, The Man with Night Sweats - a monodrama encapsulating the compassion, grief, hope...

Iain Bell’s "Aurora" is a concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. It premiered at the BBC Proms in 2018 with soprano...

Five sonnets for high, bel canto tenor and string orchestra, settings words by Richard Barnfield on the epiphanies, anxieties and obsessions of queer love.

A fifteen-minute song cycle for soprano and piano, which was first performed on 8 September 2007 at the European Music Festival, Stuttgart by Diana Damrau (soprano) and Matthias Lademann (piano). Both...

Wombed Souls set three poems by Thomas Hardy. Recorded by Diana Damrau (soprano) and Helmet Deutsch (piano).