The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace - Full Score
Chamber Opera in One Act
Dur. approx. 40 minutes
Music by Kamala Sankaram
Libretto by Rob Handel
For voice, piano and string quartet
CHARACTERS
Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace (mezzo-soprano)
William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace (tenor)
Charles Babbage, Fellow of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge (bass-baritone)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (soprano)
A Nanny (soprano)
A Butler (baritone)
Note: It is possible for Harriet Beecher Stowe to double as Nanny, and for Babbage to double as Butler.TIME:
The middle of the nineteenth century
PLACE:
An estate in Surrey and a laboratory in London