Act 1 Prelude/Dogs drowning in sand How do I know you know? Lavater Leonardo says The size of the brain Weigh the brain Act 2 The theory of proportions Stand up and be counted Measure my body Galton Goya’s snub nose Lombroso And Goya cried Act 3 Where is Goya? The sequence of the gene A man impaled The risky gene Mutation Brilliant body Take its DNA Give me Goya’s skull Tortured prisoner Act 4 That day decided We’ve cracked the genome I wanted rid of it And cloning is here to stay How can you be so stupid? Forgive me MNRCD121-122 |
Facing Goya - an opera in four acts composed by Michael Nyman with libretto by Victoria Hardie Winnie Böwe soprano Marie Angel soprano Hilary Summers contralto Harry Nicoll tenor Omar Ebrahim baritone Michael Nyman Band Conducted by Michael Nyman This three cd digipack and booklet box set includes a free bonus cd containing selections from Michael’s two other operas available on MN Records, Man and Boy: Dada and Love Counts Facing Goya puts science on the cultural stage through the music of Michael Nyman and the inspiration of one of the world’s greatest painters. Facing Goya is a taut thriller that follows one woman’s passionate search for the 18th Century Spanish artist Goya’s missing skull. Her journey takes us into the dangerous world of racial stereotyping, gene therapy, cloning and humankind’s follies as seen through Goya’s paintings, etchings and captions. The idea for the opera arose from Michael Nyman’s fascination with the insidious study of craniometry that developed in the 1870s. Goya was regarded as one of the greatest painters of his time. Buried in Bordeaux, legend has it that he asked friends to ensure his head was removed prior to burial to prevent the early craniometrists and researchers of eugenics from getting hold of his brain. “Facing Goya asks the question ‘if Goya’s skull was found, and if indeed, Goya was cloned, what would happen?’” Box Set includes Full Libretto and extensive booklet notes. This box set contains a free bonus cd with highlights of Michael Nyman’s two previously released operas on MN Records 
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the Facing Goya booklet containg specially commissioned text and the full libretto.
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