Your High Imperial

"Your High Imperial" has a duration of fifteen minutes with music composed by Kenneth Doren who also developed the concept. The libretto developed by Christina Willings forms disparate sexual and political text inspired by the biblical Songs of Solomon, George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism and the Malleus Maleficarum (The Witch Hammer) which

The opera creates a visually pulsing new musing on the selected text while penetrating traditional musical and theatrical methods with the use of technology.

served as a guidebook for Inquisitors during the Inquisition during the Middle Ages. This is a digital video opera for live instrumentation, digital accompaniment, and a video projection of a soprano singer. The digitally re-composed music for "Your High Imperial", transcribed for a brass quintet and two violins, is based on the compositions of J. S. Bach's organ music and Giuseppe Tartini's The Devil's Trill.