The Old Man and the Sea
The Tale of Genji was written shortly after the year 1000 in Japan's Heian era, when the capital was situated at Heian-kyo (present-day Kyoto). Genji, the hero of the Tale, is the son of the emperor...
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ACT I (Year 1 of Akhnaten's Reign Thebes. The opera begins with an orchestral Prelude. The curtain rises towards the end of the Prelude, revealing the...
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VOCAL TRIO When the tolling of the temple bell Told me that dawn and my vigil's end had come at last I felt as though I'd passed a hundred Autumn nights. Scene 1 (Spring) SARASHINA, VOCAL TRIO...
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Cast: PRINCE (Tenor) FOREIGN PRINCESS (Soprano) RUSALKA, a naiad (Soprano) WATER GOBLIN (Bass) JEZIBABA, a witch (Mezzo Soprano) 1st DRYAD (Soprano) 2nd DRYAD (Soprano) 3rd DRYAD (Contralto) ...
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By 2100, New York was enduring an excruciating 70 days a year above 100 degrees (as predicted), so we abandoned it. The other coastal hells, too. Rising sea levels coupled with the inherent seismic...
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PEASANT O Argos, ancient land, and streams of Inachus, whence on a day king Agamemnon sailed to the realm of Troy, carrying his warriors aboard a thousand ships; and after he had slain Priam who was...
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HELEN Lo! These are the fair virgin streams of Nile, the river that waters Egypt's tilth, fed by pure melting snow instead of rain from heaven. Proteus during his life-time was king of this land,...
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APHRODITE Wide o'er man my realm extends, and proud the name that I, the goddess Cypris, bear, both in heaven's courts and 'mongst all those who dwell within the limits of the sea and the bounds of...
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AGAMEMNON Old man, come hither and stand before my dwelling. ATTENDANT I come; what new schemes now, king Agamemnon? AGAMEMNON Thou shalt hear. ATTENDANT I am all eagerness. 'Tis little enough sleep...
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IPHIGENIA To Pisa, by the fleetest coursers borne, Comes Pelops, son of Tantalus, and weds The virgin daughter of Oenomaus: From her sprung Atreus; Menelaus from him, And Agamemnon; I from him...
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