The Only One was written by composer Hannah Conway and writer Hazel Gould after 16 hours of research and interviews with patients and staff in pre-term birth clinics at Elizabeth Garett Anderson Wing, University College Hospital London. The aria is sung by a fictional patient. It explores experiences of internal vaginal ultrasound scans for the purpose of cervical measurement and assessment of pre-term birth assessment risk.

 

 

Soprano: Nazan Fikret

Recorded by Tom Lewington at Floating Earth Studios

Video design by Rey Trombetta

Commissioned in 2025 by Tommy’s National Research Centre for Pre-Term Birth, Imperial College London and The Birth Rites Collection.