Death and the Powers - Miranda's Aria (2010)
Tod Machover
Plays: 12709
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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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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