it was not until 1986 that Brian McMaster, the company's then managing director, first brought the composer and librettist together.
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On the way she persuades him to leave behind the valuables that have been slowing him down, but she decides to keep the "Great White Bird flying with many wings", a ship in a bottle that reminds her of her tornrak.
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Reviewing the Welsh premiere, Rodney Milnes described Tornrak as "an absorbing, thought-provoking and very approachable new opera" and as more successful than Metcalf's first opera The Journey.
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John Metcalf's 1990 opera Tornrak features throat singing by the Inuit characters.