Klytemnestra

Klytemnestra (1997-98) is an operatic concert aria. It is an aria of farewell. It is a very womanly soliloquy of attraction-repulsion towards a man once much loved and now much hated, once much desired and now she desires his death. It is a soliloquy of Klytemnestra just before she, with the conniving of her paramour Aegisthus, murders the King and his most recent consort, Cassandra. When Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs (co-directors of CONTINUUM) suggested that I write a new piece for the core ensem