Elizabeth Major (Librettist)

 

Elizabeth Major trained at University of London, Goldsmiths’ College and taught in Bristol primary schools for ten years.

 

After a period as Schools Liaison Officer for Bristol Festival for Children, she worked as General Manager for The Bristol Cancer Help Centre and subsequently became Administrative Director for the Bristol Urological Institute. She started writing poetry and short stories while bringing up her family, and has continued writing over the last thirty years.

 

Married to Eric Wetherell, she has collaborated with him on several projects including The Diaries of Adam and Eve an entertainment for two actors, chorus and chamber orchestra. A song cycle, We Are The Women, for soprano, mezzo soprano and piano about the effects of the First World War on the women left behind came the following year and then, in 2003, she wrote A Matching of Powers for soprano, baritone and full orchestra.

 

She has completed several solo songs and chorus pieces and in 2010 she and Eric Wetherell combined forces on the opera A Foreign Field, based on the book by Ben Macintyre.

 

Her first novel Mystica, Seeking Rainbows was e-published last year. She is currently working on a Mystica sequel and has started a further novel, spanning 60 years from 1916 onwards, as well as looking at possible ideas for a further opera.