The Hummingbird (Ecological Opera)
Piece for choir, orchestra and two solo singers (baritone and soprano) in seven movements
Duration 40min
Libretto: Hélène Hucher
Music: Gerardo Di Giusto
#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