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Content warning: terminal illness
This is not a biographical opera, it is an exploration of an emotional journey. At age 5, Jacqueline has instant chemistry and sparks fly when she meets her cello. Their relationship grows stronger and closer, and Jacqueline matures into a charismatic and likeable teen, powerful on major stages. Soon she is a...
This is not a biographical opera, it is an exploration of an emotional journey. At age 5, Jacqueline has instant chemistry and sparks fly when she meets her cello. Their relationship grows stronger and closer, and Jacqueline matures into a charismatic and likeable teen, powerful on major stages. Soon she is a...
Composer: Luna Pearl Woolf
Librettist: Royce Vavrek
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Excerpts
In her prime. At a post-gala cocktail party, Jackie ironically confesses she has a terrible disease: glissando-itis.
Comparing herself to Samson, Jackie and her husband have a tangled night of love one rainy night.
In her prime, Jackie admits she finds the pace of touring life dizzying. The sycophants at parties are starting to get to her.
On a phone call with her mother, Jackie is admonished. She begs her mother to visit. She’s alone with fragments of memory.
Delirious, Jackie envisions running to the ocean again through the fields, this time with her sister, Hilary. She asks that Hilary not tell Daniel about the disease.
Jackie tells us how she can blur the lines between fantasy and reality at will. She can escape the confines of her chair by dreaming of bathing in the sea. She wonders where Daniel is, and who he’s seeing.
Jacqueline, the child, tells her cello they will play great concert halls and make records.
Jacqueline remembers playing in the fields with her sister in her childhood, and the fragrance of wildflowers.
Jacqueline experiences symptoms, but her physical illness is undiagnosed, and she is instead told it is hysterical or psychosomatic.
Jacqueline enjoys telling a joke about some monks' sexual arousal.
Jacqueline remembers happy times with her cello in childhood.
Angry and frustrated at her physical inability to play, Jacqueline cancels her remaining performances.
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