Sorevia 2

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

Instrumental — english horn alone, intimate, remembrance, joined by solo cello

Baritone — quiet, close, wounded warmth

The lamps went out

one by one

I kept the last one

for your name

The chairs are cold

the windows grey

and still I set

a place for you

Soprano — floating in above sparse piano, tender

I never left

I only changed

I am the rain

upon the glass

I am the hour

after the bell

I am the part

of you that stayed

Baritone — rising, restrained intensity

Sa-lei...

Sa-lei...

How do I carry

what I cannot see

How do I answer

what is left of me

Soprano — luminous, contrary motion against him

O-re-mi-a...

O-re-mi-a...

You do not carry

Instrumental — english horn alone, then violas rising, low and unresolved

Baritone — quiet, close, almost spoken-song, exposed

A year went by

and then a year

I learned the rooms

without you here

I do not wait

the way I did

I only leave

the door unhid

Soprano — floating above sparse piano, tender, answering

O-re-mi-a...

You leave the door

I know the sound

I am the step

upon the ground

A-e-li-a...

You do not wait

and yet you stay

That is the way

I wanted it

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

Baritone — rising, restrained, contrary motion against her

Va-re-lai...

Va-re-lai...

And if I turn

into the light

and someone new

comes into sight

Will you be less

Will you be gone

Or will you be

the coming dawn

Soprano — luminous, unafraid, gentle confrontation

O-re-mi-a...

O-re-mi-a...

I am not less

I am not gone

I am the seed

beneath the snow

You are allowed

to let me go

You are allowed

to carry on

Baritone and Soprano — interweaving, independent lines, growing

(You are allowed) Va-re-lai

(to carry on) So-re-via

(I am the seed) A-le-ra

(beneath the snow) O-re-vai

(Do-ra-vei) Va-re-lai

(Sa-lei) O-re-mi-a

Choir — soft rhythmic chanting, distant, harmonic bed

Ha-re-vai... Ha-re-vai...

Lo-ra-sei... Lo-ra-sei...

Ha-re-vai... Ha-re-vai...

Baritone — extended solo, sustained, emotional development inside the notes

O... reia...

Na... veia...

Va-lia...

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

Then let it come

the unfamiliar day

Then let it come

the stranger at the gate

I will not turn

the stranger away

I will not make

a monument

of what I could not save

Do-ra-vei...

Do-ra-vei...

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

Soprano — support, completing and transforming his phrase, luminous

A-li-e...

A-li-e...

O-rei...

Sa-lei...

And that is how

the wound becomes

a window

And that is how

the window becomes

a sky

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

Baritone — breakthrough, emerging from the choir, high-register intensity

VA-RE-LAI!

VA-RE-LAI!

SO-RE-VIA!

SO-RE-VIA!

I am not finished

I am not through

I am the morning

you led me to

A-LE-RA!

A-LE-RA!

O-RE-VAI!

Choir — monumental, sorrowful triumph, full harmonic depth

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

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

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

A-LE-RA! O-RE-VAI!

Baritone and Soprano — unison, earned, then diverging

A-le-ra...

O-re-vai...

Sa-lei... o-rei...

(Do-ra-vei) Va-re-lai

(So-re-via) A-le-ra

(O-re-vai) Sa-lei

Baritone — final extended solo, quiet, vast, resolved

O... reia...

Na... veia...

Va-lia...

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

I will not mourn

the way I did

but I will keep

the shape of it

I will not fear

the empty room

I made a table

out of it

And morning comes

and morning comes

and I am here

and I am here

Do-ra-vei...

Do-ra-vei...

Soprano — gentle support, fading, tender

A-li-e...

A-li-e...

O-rei...

Sa-lei...

And morning comes

And morning comes

Final unison — both voices, quiet, vast choir beneath, dissolving

A-le-ra...

O-re-vai...

Sa-lei...

O-rei...

A-le-ra...

O-re-vai...