THE TEMPEST

Stratford Festival, Canada production with Christopher Plummer - 2010

music by Michael Roth

filmed in performance and released on Bravo - 2011

submitted as one of two evening length works of live performance

for the Perelman Democracy Cycle 2025 -

on this page are a handful of excerpts from the production that feature the music

"Adding to the beauty and mystery is the wonderful score by Roth,

whose music is dissonant and unsettling, but can also beguile and transfix." (Broadway.com) **

Prospero Monologue & Ariel (Julyana Soelistyo) sngs "Where the Bee Sucks"

Caliban, Stefano & Trinculo (Dion Johnstone, Geraint Wynn Davies, Bruce Dow) sing "Freedom"

Gonzalo's Utopian Vision of the Island - with James Blendick

Ariel Sings "Full Fathom Five" - Miranda & Ferdinand meet

Ariel as the Harpie, Prospero speaks, end of Act One

Trailer for the 2011 film

Music Rehearsal with the Three Goddesses for The Masque, Christopher Plummer in the background

Reviews - links below -

** the Broadway.com review quoted above is no longer online -

This was the first of two collaborations with Christopher Plummer - after THE TEMPEST, he invited me

to compose the score for his solo show, A WORD OR TWO (2012-14), produced at Stratford and Los Angeles

Two Bonus Videos -

1 - After Mr. Plummer passed away in 2021, Canada released a memorial stamp, the first video below is a tribute

celebrating the stamp, featuring excerpts from the TEMPEST score

2 - In 2024 my TEMPEST score was used once more for an animated version to be released later this year -

this video features my setting of "Where the Bee Sucks" performed by Ariel

Christopher Plummer Stamp

Ariel (Jin Malley) sings, from the animated TEMPEST (2025)