Abstract
Mouthpiece XX, (2014) a concert-opera by Erin Gee (composer/sibling), performed with Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Mouthpiece XX imagines the historical figure Matteo Ricci, who in the sixteenth century taught the "memory palace" technique of associatively linking memories to places within an architectural space. Here, Ricci is imagined as two separate fictional characters: Mathilde (based on Ricci) and her servant Matteo.