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Piece for choir, orchestra and two solo singers (baritone and soprano) in seven movements

Duration 40min

Libretto: Hélène Hucher

Music: Gerardo Di Giusto

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#1c: The Forest is on Fire

 

-Choir

The forest is on fire,

the forest is on fire,

Run away, run away, run away, run away,

because the Ogre devours!

The forest is on fire

She's not breathing

Hear to suffer, to crack, to moan

curled up

Quartered

Quickly sold out

There will be nothing left!

Endlessly life flees, taken mad

Madness

Agony

 

-The hummingbird

Delicate flowers with fragrant nectar,

clearings rippling in the summer breeze,

subtly nuanced foliage,

I wanted to keep you!

Colored leaves in the autumn arrived,

Snowy hills in winter shrouded,

Fragrant paths of spring,

I wanted to keep you!

Sing, get drunk again

Share this happiness

What have we done ?

 

 

 

-Choir

The forest is on fire,

the forest is on fire,

run away, run away, run away, run away,

because the Ogre devours

 

-Humming-bird

The forest cries

but what can i do

two small wings

It's so little my faith

 

 

 

And what will we say

-       wings

We will laugh

-       Paws

he is ridiculous

-       Head

And it will fail

-       Mad !

-       Your death is certain

-       Pride

-       You, so small

 

Don't try anything

Hear the screams

You take your flight

And you alone act

Braving the fire

-       Turned

By the wind carried

-       Fly

I am my way

-       Safe

wings spread

-       Quick

No more fear

Ogre will die

A drop

A drop of water

 

-Choir

Comes from the black horizon

A green and blue bird

But what is he doing in this hell of destruction?

Small

Brittle

Stubborn

He steals

Fire

Still

waiting for him

But the Ogre takes and the tree dies.

The bird in a hurry goes on its way

On the tip of its beak sleeps a treasure

A drop

A drop

A hope

-The hummingbird

Delicate flowers with fragrant nectar,

clearings rippling in the summer breeze,

subtly nuanced foliage,

I wanted to keep you!

 

Colored leaves in the autumn arrived,

Snowy hills in winter shrouded,

Fragrant paths of spring,

I wanted to keep you!

Sing, get drunk again

Share this happiness

What have we done ?

 

-Choir

The forest is on fire,

the forest is on fire,

run away, run away, run away, run away,

because the Ogre devours

 

-Humming-bird

The forest cries

but what can i do

two small wings

It's so little my faith

 

And what will we say

-       wings

We will laugh

-       Paws

he is ridiculous

-       Head

And it will fail

-       Mad !

-       Your death is certain

-       Pride

-       You, so small

 

 

Don't try anything

Hear the screams

You take your flight

And you alone act

Braving the fire

-       Turned

By the wind carried

-       Fly

I am my way

-       Safe

wings spread

-       Quick

No more fear

Ogre will die

A drop

A drop of water

 

-Choir

Comes from the black horizon

A green and blue bird

But what is he doing in this hell of destruction?

Small

Brittle

Stubborn

He steals

Fire

Still

waiting for him

But the Ogre takes and the tree dies.

The bird in a hurry goes on its way

On the tip of its beak sleeps a treasure

A drop

A drop

A hope

 

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No. 2: The drop of water

 

-Soprano Solo

Small colorless sphere

I reflect them all,

Simple shell of light

I spread the rainbow

 

In the heart of the leaf

I feed the flower,

In the throat of the bird

I give her her song

 

It's from me that I hope

desert walker,

pearls of frost

The dreams of the child are born

 

Endlessly I carve the mountains,

Endlessly I appease the volcanoes,

Endlessly I water the earth

Giving it color and life

 

I'm still there

In a tear of joy

I'm still there

In a tear of love

 

I still want to be all that

But what have you done with me?

 

If I'm a tear,

It's that of the glaciers that are dying

If I'm a drop,

It's all impurity

 

Remember the song of the rain

The one that bangs on your roof

The one that drizzles on your skin

The one that awakens colors and flowers.

 

I still want to be all that

But what have you done with me?

 

When lands burn,

Others flood,

Some die, some drown

You no longer bathe in the clear river

Life is dying in your dirty oceans

 

I still want to be all that

But what have you done with me?

No. 3: Sadness

 

-Choir

Sadness

Sadness

We didn't know,

We have not seen

Sadness

Sadness

 

Our feet are dragging

imprisoned

Balls too heavy

crushed, lost

 

how about mirror?

Is it already so late?

give us hope

Why this silence ?

So we're so alone

So alone, so alone

Sadness

Sadness

Didn't know how to look

not able to listen

 

The world is ours

Used

speaks mirror

Our hearts are so black

 

Where should you walk?

How to find?

To start all over

Seed the world

A new light

speaks mirror

take us out of the darkness

Light a hope on the tears

Toddler

little dream

Sigh

Sadness

Tears

 

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N°4: Duo Drop of water / Hummingbird – Consciousness

 

-Hummingbird (C)

Drop of water, you were a hope,

You are only my own tear,

From treasure reduced to junk,

Shell dressed in black

 

-Water Drop (G)

Bird, green and blue bird

We come from the past

Look at the black cloud

That of the burnt forest

 

-VS

Solitude in the reflection of the mirror.

With thousands of birds

So, maybe, the forest...

Crazy dream but so beautiful

 

-G

Hummingbird that carried me

Barely posed, quickly evaporated

The sheet was saved

But the tree burned down

 

-Choir

Too frail, too small,

Always too alone

Useless, derisory

To chaos, victory!

 

-VS

We have, we wanted to believe

On the lonely road

We gave it all, gave it all

To chaos, victory! Victory !

 

-G

Bird, reckless bird

keep your crying

What do you want to do with it

When all is lost?

 

-Choir

Too frail, too small,

Always too alone, too small

Too frail, too small,

  Always too alone, too small

  Useless, derisory

  To chaos, victory!

No. 5: Chaos

 

-Choir

 

To chaos victory!

 

Feeling of being i - nu - ti - les...!

To-ta-le-ment ri - di - cu - les...!

 

Hummingbird, hummingbird, alone you take your share of the burden.

Your courage is great but alone you can hardly do anything.

We should be a hundred, we should be a thousand!!

Dislocated universe.

Burnt - Drowned - Crushed - Broken.

Too late to scream, too late to scream!

We have forgotten everything.

We have wasted everything.

We slaughtered everything.

Nice useless power.

We can do everything and we do nothing!

To chaos victory!

 

 

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No. 6: Small Wings

 

-Baritone

Alone I can do nothing! But I remain alone to try

Faced with two small wings, the Ogre and the chaos won
I lost my strength, I lost my dream

What will be the future? Where will the beauty be?

 

-Choir

Beauty, Beauty, Beauty Oh….

 

 

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No. 7: Towards the Future

 

-Choir

Chorus

 

Deep in our memories

Eternals

Our gestures, our looks

Vibrant call

(bis)

 

Hummingbirds                       

By thousands                    

Today              

finally awake            

Let's make

From our hands

let's give birth

life for tomorrow

 

-Hummingbird:

In my mirror

forgotten loneliness

 

-Drop :

All our hopes

found

 

-VS :

I have to act

We will be thousands

 

-G:  

All of us together

 

-C+G:       

The appeased fire

The balance found

 

VS :    

Steal

Follow the new wind

 

-G:  

new wind

 

-C+G:       

The one (hummingbird)

of our dream

 

-Choir

(Chorus)

-G:  

Each of us knows how to walk

 

-VS :  

more darkness

The road is clear

      

-G:  

Every village awake

 

-VS :  

More cannonballs

Our liberated steps

 

-C+G:

Our ideas to share

To listen (drop)

And (hummingbird)

we will be able to see

another world

other world

 

-Choir

(Chorus)

 

-C+G:       

infinite power

Balance

Way

of harmony

 

-Choir

Crowd marching

It is now

As a soldier of life

of life and harmony

 

Every step, every hand

A chain of hope

A strong sun

And it's a new awakening

 

You, you act

I'll meet you

finally reunited

The future in our hands

 

We act today

This day finally

Give birth to hope

The beauty of tomorrow

Act today towards the future

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