Sound Samples: Tod Machover - **Death and the Powers

Plays: 12737

one-act opera

Excerpt: "Miranda's Aria"

Duration: 02 mins 32 secs

Joélle Harvey/The Dallas Opera/Nicola Paiement
(p) & (c) 2015

Recorded at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas, Texas, February 2014
with the collaboration of the MIT Media Lab

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Text heard on Sample:

Miranda
...I miss having a father.
Like any other
Person, I am someone’s child
I want at least
Something like a mother
Something of flesh and blood.
I miss having a father
Of flesh and blood.
I need to touch my mother....

© Libretto by Robert Pinsky

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