Mezzo-soprano, high baritone, soprano (Flute, B-flat Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano) - Advanced
SKU: EC.8557
Composed by Tom Cipullo. One Act/Chamber Opera. 21st Century. Score. E.C. Schirmer Publishing #8557. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.8557).
ISBN 600313485572. UPC: 600313485572. English.
Music:
Composed by Tom Cipullo. Libretto:
Written by David Mason. | Roles: | | GERTRUDE STEIN | Mezzo-Soprano | | PABLO PICASSO | High Baritone | | GIRL (teen, a victim of the Holocaust) | Soprano |
Synopsis:
Chamber Opera in One Act. After Life imagines a post-mortem reunion of Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Stein believes her beloved Alice B. Toklas has conjured her back to life, while Picasso wonders which of his many lovers has called him up from the abyss. When both realize, to their disappointment, that their great loves are not present, the two towering figures discuss their lives, their complex relationship, and their activities during the Second World War. Their outsized egos clash, resentment between them boils over and, as they confront each other, a third voice rises from the darkness. A young girl, a victim of the Holocaust, appears, and it is her questioning that has brought Stein and Picasso back from the dead. Why did she die while they lived on? Can the two artists, whose work endures, ever know death as she does? Who will remember her, when she barely remembers herself? | | | |
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