Anne Chmelewsky: Women Make Music
Anne Chmelewsky is a London-based composer who trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Royal College of Music. She primarily composes for film, TV, and stage, and is a keen champion of opening classical music and opera up to new audiences. As part of this mission her work has been performed in both traditional and unconventional venues across the UK and Europe.
With the help of PRS Foundation, Anne will be workshopping and staging the third in a series of short comic operas: Pygmalion 2.0. The piece is a comedy in three acts performed by two women, a singer and a pianist, and presents a gender reversal of Ovid’s classical story Pygmalion. This new version of the tale follows a pioneering scientist of artificial intelligence in her mid-thirties, who comes to the realisation that the future of humanity depends on re-engineering the entire male sex. Driven by a fierce sense of intellectual competition and a desire to avert the imminent downfall of the human race, she sets out to artificially create the ‘perfect’ man of the future using a series of complex computer algorithms, Nietzschean philosophy, and Tinder. The results of her experiment, however, are far from what she expected…