Mohammed Fairouz, Sumeida's Song, Act III, Lament, Impossible Life

Mohammed Fairouz, Sumeida's Song
An Opera in Three Acts
Based on Tawfiq El-Hakim's Song of Death
~This opera is gratefully dedicated to Kyle Alexander Cronin~

Act III, Lament
Impossible Life

World Premiere Performance [CONCERT VERSION]
April 13, 2011, New York Society for Ethical Culture, New York, NY
Scott Dunn, conductor
Jo Ellen Miller, soprano [Mabrouka]
Rachel Calloway, mezzo soprano [Asakir]
Robert Mack, tenor [Sumeida]
Randall Scarlata, baritone [Alwan]
The Mimesis Ensemble Orchestra
Katie Reimer, Artistic and Executive Director

WEBSITES:
www.mohammedfairouz.com
www.mimesisensemble.org

TEXT:
Lament: Impossible Life
ASAKAIR: Everything is easy to bear except this disgrace. After it, life becomes impossible. How am I to live in the village when the people know that I have such a son? Every one will spit in disgust at the mere mention of his name. Would that he really died as a child in the water well... From every side voices will be raised saying what a failure of a belly could bring forth such a son? Yes, this belly! All the women of the village will scoff at it... even the barren, the deformed, and the dull-witted. This belly! This belly!

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