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The Leopard

by Sean McCann

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NSR It sounds exciting and new to me - the sound design / sound quality is incredible. I feel like I am listening to the talking interlude parts in a strange computer game more than anything else with the stilted voices. Overall it is utterly brilliant and I have listened to it a few times whilst driving and will again tonight.. really good.
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Michael Jamtz This is perhaps the most natural confluence of all Sean McCann's powers as composer, writer, engineer, and performer. The texture, the content, the mood...all wonderful.
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mrbowler aka charlie morrow a hook worth biting on Favorite track: Overture.
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1.
Overture 05:57
2.
Sailboat 11:15
3.
Copy 1 02:42
4.
Cottage 07:12
5.
Forest 06:55
6.
Copy 2 03:26
7.
Tavern 12:41
8.
Hotel 05:59
9.
Copy 3 03:48
10.
Library 07:29
11.
Restaurant 06:03
12.
Copy 4 03:01
13.
Cemetery 08:39
14.
Coda 04:40

about

Sean McCann presents The Leopard, an opera.

Dialog, music, and elaborate sound design fold into a narrative fantasy about self-cannibalization and transformation. Written and recorded over five years, this is McCann’s first album since 2019’s Puck (Recital) and his first opera. The opera is voiced by composer Martin Bresnick, artist Nour Mobarak, musician Max Eilbacher [Horse Lords], and voice actors David George and Krystel Abimeri. McCann performed and recorded most of the music himself, meticulously editing every sound.

The opera opens with an ornate musical overture before plunging into a surreal tableau: characters on a sailboat cooking and consuming themselves over a makeshift stove. Over the course of eight scenes, the plot continually dissolves and recombines, inducing a narcotic dreamstate. The opera is overseen by Copy, a chimerical figure who both guides and distorts the plot. Four wordless interludes feature Copy in a greenhouse, playing old Victrola records while pruning floral incarnations of each persona. One hears screaming silverware, sprays of watering cans, a thunderstorm, and the baking of each character into a loaf of bread. Musical flourishes appear, such as Barbara Strozzi’s devastating Lagrime mie (1659) which is performed in an empty library alongside a Gertrude Stein-esque spoken incantation read by Nour Mobarak. The opera closes with a grand coda; a haunting, elegiac work for violins and choir.

The opera is accompanied by a book that contains the libretto along with unspoken texts and artwork. Each scene in the book contains a “Copy path,” a kind of plot betrayal or text smear that beckons the listener to fall inside plot holes and uncover flickers of meaning for themselves.

The Leopard navigates a new form that lays somewhere between radio-play, experimental opera, and dioramic film. Available from Recital as a double-CD edition or a limited triple-vinyl LP box set (edition of 100).

credits

released October 31, 2025

Libretto by Sean McCann
Sound design and music by Sean McCann

CAST
The Leopard: Martin Bresnick
The Mummy: David George
Opal: Nour Mobarak
Gale: Krystel Abimeri
Daniel: Max Eilbacher

(2020 - 2025)

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