Sorevia 1

Opening — baritone, warm, wounded, melodic

O-rei... va-lia...

Se-ra... no-vei...

Choir enters — radiant, monumental

VA-RE-LAI! VA-RE-LAI!

SO-RE-VIA! SO-RE-VIA!

Soprano — soaring, fragile hope

A-e-li-a...

O-re-mi-a...

Sa-lei... sa-lei...

Baritone — noble, increasingly emotional

Do-ra-vei!

Do-ra-vei!

Ma-re-lo... vi-a...

Choir — triumphant melody, sorrowful harmony

HA-RE-VAI! HA-RE-VAI!

LO-RA-SEI! LO-RA-SEI!

Sudden intimacy — exposed baritone, trembling

O... reia...

Na... veia...

Soprano answers — tender, luminous

A-li-e...

A-li-e...

Final climax — baritone, soprano and vast choir

VA-RE-LAI! VA-RE-LAI!

SO-RE-VIA! SO-RE-VIA!

A-LE-RA! A-LE-RA!

O-RE-VAI!

Ending — solo soprano, fading

Sa-lei...

O-rei...

Instrumental — solo cello answers the soprano's fading line

Baritone — quiet, exhausted, exposed

Sa-lei...

Sa-lei...

The hall is still

but nothing sleeps

I count the names

the morning keeps

Soprano — tender, floating above sparse piano

I heard you call

before the light

I held the sound

against the night

Baritone — rising with restrained intensity

Va-re-lai...

Va-re-lai...

What did we win

that we could hold

What did we lose

that we let go

Soprano — luminous, contrary motion against him

O-re-mi-a...

O-re-mi-a...

You carried more

than you could say

I carried you

another day

Choir — distant, sustained, harmonic bed

Ha-re-vai...

Lo-ra-sei...

Baritone and Soprano — interweaving, independent lines

(You carried more) Va-re-lai

(than you could say) So-re-via

(I carried you) Va-re-lai

(another day) A-le-ra

Choir — soft rhythmic chanting

VA-RE-LAI! VA-RE-LAI!

SO-RE-VIA! SO-RE-VIA!

Soprano — extended solo, soaring arc

A-e-li-a...

Come back to me

O-re-mi-a...

Come back to me

Sa-lei... sa-lei...

The wound is wide

but I am wide

enough to hold

what you divide

Baritone — breakthrough from the choral texture

Do-ra-vei!

Do-ra-vei!

Ma-re-lo... vi-a...

I am not gone

I am not gone

I am the ash

that learned the dawn

Baritone and Soprano — unison, earned reunion

A-le-ra...

A-le-ra...

O-re-vai...

O-re-vai...

Choir — monumental, sorrowful triumph

HA-RE-VAI! HA-RE-VAI!

LO-RA-SEI! LO-RA-SEI!

VA-RE-LAI! VA-RE-LAI!

SO-RE-VIA!

Baritone — extended solo, sustained and emotional

O... reia...

Na... veia...

Va-lia...

Se-ra... no-vei...

Do-ra-vei... do-ra-vei...

Soprano — gentle support, completing his phrase

A-li-e...

A-li-e...

O-rei...

Sa-lei...

Instrumental — strings ascend, french horns bittersweet, timpani softens

Final unison — both voices, quiet, vast choir beneath

A-le-ra...

O-re-vai...

Sa-lei...

O-rei...

Ending — solo soprano, fading into solo cello

Sa-lei...

Sa-lei...

O-rei...