Sappho the last grand opera of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-90) was written in her stone cottage on the island of Mykonos in 1963. Polaski who creates the role of the aging Sappho describes the opera as 'the kind of music that singers want to sing'.
9 Introduction... Phaon Has Become Much Thinner... the Nymph in the Fountain
10 Boy! Bring Us the Laurel!... What Are the Fortunes of the World We Live In?
11 Wait, Hear Me First!... the Epigram Contest
12 Sappho! Sappho!... If Death Be Noble
13 Ah, It Is You
14 Nay, But Always and Forever
- Disc 2 -
1 Inroduction... What Are You Making?... Here's Minos Coming!
2 Hail to Pittakos!
3 Sea Begotten Heroes
4 Admit It Now... Now, Where Is His Brother of Mine
5 Ah, Here You Are at Last
6 You Think I Do Not Feel... Sappho! Sappho!
7 Diomedes, Oh Diomedes, What Have You Done?
8 Sleep Now
9 Priestess of the Oracle... Invocation
10 Oh Mask!
11 Introduction
12 The Voting Must Be Over
13 I Am Very Tired
14 Sappho! Sappho! It Is Exile
15 Now Everything Is Silence and Remoteness
Sappho the last grand opera of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-90) was written in her stone cottage on the island of Mykonos in 1963. Polaski who creates the role of the aging Sappho describes the opera as 'the kind of music that singers want to sing'.
