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LISTEN TO 8 EXCERPTS FROM THE REQUIEM:

1/ Prologue opening (click to listen)

The Sibyl’s figure appears.
She gets into her transe.
She is gyrating and starts to sing her song.

Sibyl:

I, daughter of Neso born of Teucer Sibulle Sibyla Sibyl
I who dwelled in Marpessos
I who at the rear of the cave in Mount Corcyra stood
One hundred and ten years ninefold
I who lived in Samos
I who lived in Claros
I who lived in Erythrae
I who lived in Delphi
Every dawn saw me carrying my stone
For me to fall
And I would not fall.

Ovid said:
O Amaltheus !
And I was like a cicada and could not die.
I am neither a shaman nor a prophetess nor the Pythia!
I am but a mortal who cannot get to spend her days !
In days of yore I gathered from the ground a handful of dust
O favilla ! Dust !
O you, ashes !


2/ I - Prologue into Kyrie(click to listen)

Sibyl:

In the darkness of the cave
I keep as much as I can my eyes to the ground:
My name is now but a song that wishes to die.
My body is now but a breath striving to expire.


Each time a believer would enter my cave and ask:
- Sibyl, what do you wish for ?
I would answer :
- Man, I want to die.
Each time a child would be pushing stones and in my
Shadow would come and play, would raise his head:
- Sibyl, what do you wish for ?
I would answer :
- Child, I want to die.

I want to die
Die

Chorus:
I want to die!
Kyrie Eleison
Lord, have Mercy!
Christ, have Mercy!
Lord, have Mercy!


3/ II - Psalm XVIII into Dies Irae(click to listen)

David:
The earth swayed and quaked
And the foundations of mountains trembled.

Chorus (sopranos):
Lord, my rock,
My fortress, my deliverer !

Chorus (altos):
I cry: Praise to the Lord !
The Eternal live and blessed be my rock !
Extolled be the God of my salvation !

David:
And a devouring fire from his mouth,
That kindled coals into flame.
He inclined the heavens and came down.

Chorus (altos):
I cry: Praise to the Lord !
The Eternal live and blessed be my rock !
Extolled be the God of my salvation !

David:
There were clouds of smoke under his feet
He mounted a cherub and was borne on the wings of the wind

Chorus (sopranos):
Lord, my rock, my fortress,
Lord, Lord, Lord

David:
He made darkness his retreat: tenebras.
He thundered from heaven, he gave forth his voice
And the bed of the seas appeared
And the foundations of the world were laid bare.

Chorus (altos):
I want to relinquish endless fear !
I want to die !
Relinquish fear!
I want to die, relinquish fear !
Die, die, I want to die !

David:
Lord – Dominus – by the threat – Domine !
By the sole sound of thy nostrils breathing,
By thy anger’s breath.

3b - Dies Irae

Chorus:
Day of wrath the day when
The world is reduced to ashes
As announced by David and the Sibyl.

Bass solo:
Day of wrath the day when
The world is reduced to ashes.

Chorus:
Day of wrath the day when
The world is reduced to ashes
As announced by David and the Sibyl.
.

Sibyl:
Die, I want to die !


4/ III - Ingemisco (click to listen)

Soprano solo:
I moan like a culprit
Spare him, Lord, he who implores thou.
Sin makes my face go red.

My prayers are not worthy.
But thou who are kind,
Spare me from burning in eternal fire.

Thou who absolved Mary,
Thou who heard the thief,
To me thou also gave hope.

What will I say then,
Unfortunate as I am?
Unfortunate as I am.

5/ IV - Confutatis (click to listen)

Chorus:
After confounding the cursed,
And leading them to eternal fire
Call me with the blessed

Burn me!
Forget me!
Neglect me!
Oh death!
Neglect, neglect me!
Abandon me!

David:
Call me with the blessed,
I pray and implore, prostrated
My heart crushed down To ashes

I pray and implore, prostrated
My heart crushed down to
Ashes, my end is in thy care.

6/ V - Lacrimosa (click to listen)

Soprano:
Day of tears
when the guilty
emerges from his ashes
to be judged.

Sibyl:
Leave me in my tomb !
O Death, Put me to death !

Tenor, Chorus:
Day of tears
When the guilty
Emerges from his ashes to be judged.

Sibyl:
I want to die
I want to die
I want.

7/ VI - Song of the Sibyl (click to listen)

Sibyl:
In days of yore
I would howl as I dictated
The ancient kings their books
Now I moan
As I wade through the reeds,
And bend the canes,
I open an obscure path for myself
Amid the bulrush
I head toward the punctured
Boat that never sinks
I have fallen against the wooden belly
Of the infernal barque

I address the shades
That walk by.
I address a naked Charon,
And the hum of syringes.
I address the echoes
Of shades that gather
On the countless crests of waves.
I hold out my hands to them.
I am now on my knees
In the mud of the shore
I say:
- Oh, Death! Open your jaws!
Swallow me down! In the dark lake drown me!

Chorus (women):
These offerings and prayers
That we present to you,
Lord,
Accept them for the salvation of souls
Whose memory we recall
Today

Sibyl:
Grant me the end of life
in death !