He won First Prize at the 2009 Leeds Conductors Competition. Geoffrey Paterson studied at Cambridge University and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, taking composition lessons with Alexander Goehr and participating in conducting masterclasses with Pierre Boulez. The opera contains many elements of Stevenson‘s famous shilling shocker, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The Devil Inside was inspired by The Bottle Imp, a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Damnation awaits someone, but who will it be? The price of the bottle drops ever lower, the imp grows angrier and more eager to escape. A tale of love, sacrifice and addiction ensues. He can watch his young wife die, or buy back the bottle at an even lower price and risk eternal damnation. But when Catherine becomes dangerously ill, James is faced with a choice. They are young, rich and eager to start a family. She and James fall in love and get married. He sells the bottle to Richard, who sets off to wish himself a fortune. The imp conjures James a property empire. The second condition is that the bottle must always be sold for less than it was bought for. If the owner dies in possession of the bottle, they will burn in Hell for all eternity. The imp will grant all of its owner‘s wishes, but there are two conditions. An old man emerges, bent beneath a weight of sorrows and tells the travellers that he gained his wonderful house and all of his riches via an imp, which is imprisoned inside a magical bottle. As if by magic a beautiful mansion appears. Two itinerant young men, James and Richard, lose their way and become stranded on a mountain in the dead of a stormy night.
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