Neil Valenta

Pandora ist tot (UA/World Premiere) Composer | Horst Lohse Librettist | Michael Herrschel (Lyrics: https://www.librettist.de/-/texte/pan... ) Publisher | Edition Gravis Mezzo soprano | Solgerd Isalv Piano | Neil Valenta Production | Benjamin Weber (DOP) , Sebastian Franke (Music Editor) – Staatstheater Darmstadt English translation: Pandora is dead* *This rough translation is not to be sung! It is meant as an aid to understand the original German text. Do not believe in a fairy that always reads you from your eyes You don’t know her reckoning arts She will demand a price you would begrudgingly pay No matter how high you won’t deduce it from her smile You still don’t know her name or her role model Tinkerbell perhaps with a commanding voice of whispering breeze or Pandora who gives everything so that nothing will remain Tinkerbell disappeared dissolved into glittering dust And the other one Pandora She is dead they say Only her box remains somewhere forgotten It has replenished itself and is soon to overflow It just needs something to strike the lid the wing of a bat and it begins again and becomes wishes be fulfilled en masse We just could not keep our eyes our thoughts under control could not foresee the consequences which are insane Think about how it was with the time loop where you catch up on everything with the clock always chasing you when at last for once it stands still Now it’s done everything on hold the clock is still running but nobody looks at it any more calendars have become useless We stand at a safe distance from each other in a gigantic hall of fortune All doors closed On the streets prowl nerve-wracked patrols We open windows make plans and ask not who will carry them out smiling we make bets curious who may go outside tomorrow on the streets on the squares where you are astonished and don’t recognize anything,

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