Sonnet 60: for soprano and web browser (digital playback); words by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 60 was written for Rhymes With Opera’s “1-minute Operas” project, which premiered in August 2020 in a Facebook streaming event. While audiences experienced the prerecorded piece, once the music began, they are invited to open another tab in their web browser to listen to the audio of a slightly different recording of the same work, creating a canon between the two recordings. The work highlights the passage of time with both Shakespeare’s sonnet and by recreating the slight latency that we experience in live internet events.