Her Name - a mini opera commissioned by Irish National Opera as part of the 20 Shots of Opera project (Dec 17 2020)
“Dowling’s score is sensitively wrought, catching the child’s desperate situation, the music mournful yet equally unsettling” (Opera Wire)
At a boarding school in Dublin City, a young boy secretly mourns the loss of his mother.
Music - Alex Dowling, Text - Mark O’Halloran, Boy soprano - Seán Hayden, Actor - Matthew Hayden, Director - Hugh O'Conor, Conductor - Elaine Kelly, Production Design - Sarah Bacon, Costume Design - Katie Davenport, Lighting Design - Paul Keogan, Series Director - Hugh O’Conor, Camera / Editor - Hugh Chaloner, Audio Production - Ergodos, Performed by RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Commissioned by Matthew Patrick Smyth for #20ShotsofOpera
In collaboration with RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Funded by Arts Council Ireland
Original music and sound design for Etel Adnan’s There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, co-created by Blanka Zizka and Rosa Barba at the Wilma Theater for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival (September 11-22 2019)
“The music is absolutely ravishing, thanks to composer/director Alex Dowling and singer-musicians Liz Filios, Brenson Thomas, and Emma O’Halloran” - John Timpane (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Photos by Johanna Austin
Music for the motion poem Upon reading that Andromeda will one day devour Triangulum and come for us next by Brian Spears (September 2019)
Original music and sound design for Hamlet, directed by Blanka Zizka at the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia (March 25 - April 19 2015)
Photos by Alexander Iziliaev
Original music and sound design for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, directed by Blanka Zizka at the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia (May 20 - June 14 2015)
Photos by Alexander Iziliaev