CHAROLYPI

Opening — luminous baritone, ominous strings

A-ve-li-a...

So-le-ra...

A-ve-li-a...

A-a-a... ve-li-a...

Tragic choir enters, deep and monumental

MOR-TA-RE!

VA-RE-NO!

MOR-TA-RE!

VA-RE-NO!

Baritone — warm, increasingly radiant

A-ve-li-a!

So-le-ra!

A-ve-li-a!

A-a-a!

Orchestral escalation — tenor and choir

VA-RE-NO!

MOR-TA-RE!

VA-RE-NO!

MOR-TA-RE!

Soprano — soaring, joyful melody

A-a-a-ve-li-a!

So-o-le-ra!

Postlude — mezzo-soprano alone, warm and tender

So-le-ra...

A-ve-li-a...

Mi-a...

Mi-a...

Tragic choir — low and distant, mezzo answers above

Choir

VA-RE-NO...

MOR-TA-RE...

VA-RE-NO...

Interlude — harp and distant cello, the ruin still settling

Baritone — soft, discovering a new word

Ve-la-mi-a...

So-le-ra...

Ve-la-mi-a...

A-a-a...

Mezzo-soprano — answering from far above

A-ve-li-a...

Mi-a...

A-ve-li-a...

Tragic choir — rising once more, patient and immense

MOR-TA-RE!

VA-RE-NO!

MOR-TA-RE!

VA-RE-NO!

Tenor — powerful, radiant, refusing despair

VE-LI-A!

SO-LE-RA!

A-VE-LI-A!

VE-LI-A!

Soprano — soaring, luminous, overflowing

So-o-o-le-ra!

A-a-a-ve-li-a!

Mi-a! Mi-a!

So-o-o-le-ra!

Baritone and Soprano — entwined counterpoint above the choir

Baritone

A-VE-LI-A!

SO-LE-RA!

Soprano

So-o-le-ra!

A-a-a!

Baritone

VE-LA-MI-A!

MI-A!

Soprano

A-VE-LI-A!

MI-A! MI-A!

Mixed choir — devastating, descending, unbroken

MOR-TA-RE!

VA-RE-NO!

MOR-TA-RE!

VA-RE-NO!

MOR-TA-RE!

VA-RE-NO!

Grand Collision — every voice, radiant and grieving at once

A-VE-LI-A!

MOR-TA-RE!

SO-LE-RA!

VA-RE-NO!

VE-LA-MI-A!

MOR-TA-RE!

A-VE-LI-A!

VA-RE-NO!

MI-A!

A-A-A!

A-A-A!

Tenor — last soaring cry above the falling world

SO-LE-RA!

VE-LI-A!

A-A-A!

Soprano and Mezzo — luminous, high, breaking and beautiful

So-o-o-le-ra!

Mi-a! Mi-a!

A-a-a-ve-li-a!

So-o-o-le-ra!

Choir — one final monumental descent

MOR-TA-RE!

VA-RE-NO!

MOR-TA-RE!

Orchestral aftermath — not reversed, only receding

Baritone — quiet, warm, carrying everything

A-ve-li-a...

So-le-ra...

Ve-la-mi-a...

A-a-a...

Mezzo-soprano — tender, close, luminous

Mi-a...

So-le-ra...

A-ve-li-a...

Mi-a...

Soprano — barely there, still radiant

So-o-le-ra...

Mi-a...

A-a-a...

Distant choir — almost gone, never gone

Va-re-no...

Mor-ta-re...

Va-re-no...

Mor-ta-re...

All voices — peaceful, heartbreaking, radiant, unresolved

A... ve... li... a...

So... le... ra...

Ve... la... mi... a...

Mi... a...

A... ve... li... a...

So... le... ra...

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