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But they changed their mind when they realized that Alma wouldn’t be happy there without having a lot of free time for her own - for daydreaming. Her parents moved from Oxford to Dorking because they had planned to send Alma to the Yehudi Menuhin School to give her the best musical education possible. Her ideas are borrowed from composers which live in her own dreamland, “Transylvania” (no vampires, she just liked the sound of that name). Nobody could change the style of her music, not even Alma herself. But despite that, she manages to triumph in the end.”

In another video she laughingly said that the female main character “…committed two terrible crimes: the first was being a child, the second was being female. Alma invented a new story around it and changed the main character into a young girl. Her first opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, is inspired by a very short text by Neil Gaiman. She likes stories about girls overcoming adversity. The picture on the wall in the first video shows Nannerl Mozart, not her famous brother. Reading a lot of biographies and historical books, Alma knows quite well that women had a hard stand as musicians in the past. To those who say she’s some sort of throwback to the past, I would answer that she seems to be from a place beyond time.

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That a young girl could have the mental energy to compose a two-hour opera and take credit for its full orchestration is staggering that the end result is a lively, coherent piece of comic opera is exceptional.Īlma was lucky in her parents, too, as you can see if you read any of the many many articles about her-she was homeschooled and carefully nurtured, and appears to be extraordinarily well-adjusted. Prodigy is a much-misused term, but the maturity of her composition would suggest that, for once, it is not mere hyperbole. The opera was no fluke it’s the real thing, as you can see if you read reactions to it:īut Cindrella proves that Deutscher is an extraordinary talent.

Here she is playing the piano and singing a duet with singing prodigy Amira Willighagen. Here Alma plays excerpts from some of her own compositions:Īnd here’s a short excerpt from her opera “Cinderella,” written when Alma was eleven. I don’t know about you, but I’m certainly impressed. It may be time to get to know the work of prodigy Alma Deutscher.

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