Daleko

Sous titre
Livret/Libretto - Frank Pierobon
Catégorie
Opera
2013
Compositeur(s)
Effectif
Chamber opera (in French) for 3 soloists, choir and small ensemble
Date de création
Program
At sunset, a woman and a man end up, probably lost, in a place far away from civilisation.

While the woman persuades herself she has at long last found the village where she was born and raised before the last war, the man is wrestling against mounting anxiety that threatens to turn into a ravaging panic. Only one enigmatic old man in this probably deserted neighbourhood seems available for questions though he does sound rehearsed and overly polite.

Deeply buried fragments of memory migrate back to the surface where they form a very disquieting image of unbearable menace. All this could be just a dream, if it were not so blindingly real.