- but he
immediately falls in love with
Imoinda and
later asks for her hand in marriage. The king
hears Imoinda described as the most
beautiful and charming...
-
IMOINDA or She Who Will Lose Her Name is a 2008
opera and the
first libretto to be
written by an African-Caribbean woman,
Professor Joan Anim-Addo. It...
- Oroonoko, who
falls in love with
Imoinda, the
daughter of that king's top general. The king, too,
falls in love with
Imoinda. He
gives her the
sacred veil...
- Behn,
which is the
tragic love
story between Oroonoko and the
beautiful Imoinda, an
African king and
queen respectively. At Coramantien, Ghana, the protagonist...
-
Department of
Tulane University. In 2008 she
completed her
second opera,
Imoinda, with a
libretto by Joan Anim-Addo
about slavery and the
beginning of the...
- Queen/Officer The
Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon 1999-2000
Oroonoko Imoinda The
Other Place - Stratford-upon-Avon, The Pit - London,
Newcastle Playhouse...
- king of
Ghana is a
senex amans, as he is
trying to
seduce the
young woman Imoinda.
Senex iratus A
father figure and
comic archetype who
belongs to the alazon...
- wife,
Imoinda, are sold into
slavery and
transported to the West
Indies where they are
forced to work long
hours alongside lowly slaves. When
Imoinda becomes...
-
before her death. It is the
story of the
enslaved Oroonoko and his love
Imoinda,
possibly based on Behn's
travel to
Surinam twenty years earlier. She also...
-
Velma Pollard and
Jacob Ross. In 2008, Anim-Addo
wrote the
libretto to
Imoinda, a re-writing of
Aphra Behn's
Oroonoko (first
published in 1688). Anim-Addo's...
