Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera | ||
PROGRAM NOTE | ||
OVERTURE | Aria: “Our pool is winter-covered” On with the overture: Duet of sorts: “Becalmed, plateaued, suspended” Extended aria: “Suspended passage” Aria: “Why not?” Duet: “Let’s do it” Semi-explicatory aria: “Weak Chaos” Extended aria: “This old binder. This old pen” Uncompleted aria: “Our marsh, our marsh” A floating aria: “Water-messages” Aria: “What are we doing here?” Distracted aria: “Bad J Good J” Trianglish aria: Unprogrammed aria: “Sturm und Drang” Mini-duet: “It’s not that easy” Mini-soliloquy: “What do we do now?” Unsung duet: “Sure it can.” Reprise: “Calmed, becalmed” Preludial coda: “I know these waters... and yet...” | |
INTERLUDE | Aria: “This is a story I’ve told before” On with the interlude: | |
ACT 1 | Prospective arietta: “Whoops indeed: This new old pen” Aria: “What I’ve noticed, reader” Interrupted aria: “Affectionate loyalty; benign passivity. The best complexion” Insistent aria: “Of course we do” Not an aria: “Gawdam cunt!” Aria: “The mother of all fiction” Monologue faute de mieux: The brawlbrat brawl Interruptive, tear-blinded aria: “Oatmeal: ‘He jests at scars’” Exegetical aria-within-an-aria: “Jack and Jill” Oatmeal aria resumed and concluded: “My mark” | |
ENTR’ACTE | Obscured trivial aria: “Y” | |
ACT 2 | Drum solo: “Cunt-shy” Time-out aria: Two-STEP Narrative aria: “Wunderjahr” Unwashed Freudian smegma-flake arietta: “Aha” Okay: On with Act 2 Duty-do aria: “The Ur-myth, yes” | |
| Ur-myth wrap-up aria: “‘Straight through the maze,’” almost “The Rome of Saint Jerome”: expository catch-up aria Two-part disharmony, Splitsville unduet, story too banal to tell: “Mmp” “Perhaps for lovers.” End-of-196os aria: | |
BETWEEN ACTS | An arietta resung: “Plato has Socrates teach” | |
ACT 3 (OF 2) | Reprise: “What am I doing here?” Semi-(but only semi-)sheepish, semi-(ditto-)explanatory semi-aria or -duet: “As best I can” Rescuaria: “May I... ?” Calendrical-error-assisted narrative Doppler-Effect aria: “On 12 October 1990” The end of this opera, almost. Let me explain: | |
EPISONG | Aria: “Dante’s Dante” Reprised duet: “Gone” | |