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Võ will play both instruments for Seattle Opera’s production, accompanying Huang’s new piano reduction of the original seven-instrument ensemble score.

There are times when Owens’s “Mortal Storm,” which featured the evening’s most pessimistic poems, sounds like a dense piano reduction of an opera score.

Appleby and Hanick performed a version with a piano reduction that allowed the tenor — with a relatively lighter, lyric voice — to bring out subtleties in the vocal lines.

She had originally learned the opera with a piano reduction, which inevitably lacked the layered textures of Saariaho’s score.

The theater started looking for a solo pianist to play a piano reduction of the complex score, which was written for one of the largest ensembles in opera and is often performed by more than 100 players.