Awake?
Opera details:
Opera title: | The Rake's Progress |
Composer: | Igor Stravinsky |
Language: | English |
Synopsis: | The Rake's Progress Synopsis |
Libretto: | The Rake's Progress Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Recitative details:
Type: | recitative |
Role(s): | Nick Shadow |
Voice(s): | Baritone or Bass |
Act: | 2.17 |
| Previous scene: | Pantomime |
| Next scene: | Thanks to this excellent device |
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
NICKAwake?
TOM
(Waking up)
Who's there?
NICK
Your Shadow, master.
TOM
You!
Oh Nick, I've had the strangest dream. I thought...
Can I know what I was never taught?
Or fancy objects I have never seen?
I had devised a marvellous machine,
an engine that converted stones to bread,
whereby all peoples were for nothing fed.
I saw all want abolished by my skill,
and earth become an Eden of goodwill.
(Nick shows the fantastic machine)
NICK
Did your machine look anything like this?
TOM
I must be still asleep. That is my dream!
NICK
How does it work?
TOM
I need a stone.
NICK
Try this.
TOM
I place it here. I turn the wheel,
and then: the bread!
NICK
Be certain. Taste!
TOM
(Tom eats bread
Oh miracle!
Oh may I not, forgiven all my past
for one good deed, deserve dear Anne at last?
English Libretto or Translation:
Not entered yet.External links for Awake?
| Sheetmusic for recitative |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
| Sheetmusic for opera | Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this recitative | on Amazon.com |
| DVD/CD's for this opera | on Amazon.com |
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