What is "shadowtime"

"Shadowtime" is a song written and recorded by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees and produced by Stephen Hague. It was released in 1991 as the second single from the band's 10th studio album, Superstition.

Shadowtime is the first opera by Brian Ferneyhough, written to an English libretto by Charles Bernstein. It was written from 1999 to 2004 and was premiered on 25 May 2004 at the Prinzregententheater in Munich. The City of Munich commissioned the composition and libretto in 1999 for the Munich Biennale. It is in seven scenes :

1. New Angels/Transient Failure
3. Doctrine of Similarity
4. : A Shadow Play for Speaking Pianist
5. Pools of Darkness
6. Seven Tableaux Vivants Representing the Angel of History as Melancholia
7. Stelae for Failed Time

The composer regards , a scene set to the composer's own text and played by a Liberace-like figure, as the centre-piece of the opera .