The Art of Love/Into Labyrinth
The Art of Love/Into Labyrinth
Full Orchestra and 3 Actors - OR - Two Pianos and Actor 3(2+afl,3=picc)3(3=EH)2(2+ebcl)3(3=cbsn) - 4331 - timp, 3 perc, hp - 3 actors - strings
Composer's Note:
2500 years ago , on the island of Crete, there was said to have been a Labyrinth: an underground maze of caves so complex and confusing that once in it there was no escape. At the center of the Labyrinth was a monster, half bull and half man - the Minotaur.
A principal actor (assisted by 2 other actors) assumes seven roles: The text is adapted from the works of Ovid, the Roman poet (43 B.C. to 17 A.D). It includes sections from Metamorphosis, from Ibis, from the Tristia, and from The Art of Love, a work banned for the last 2000 years.
Movements: Prelude Labyrinth 1 - Shame Labyrinth 2 - Lust Labyrinth 3 - Love Labyrinth 4 - Anger Labyrinth 5 - Sorrow Labyrinth 6 - Transcendence Coda and Labyrinth 7 - Revenge Conclusion
Authored (or revised): 2005
Published: 2025
Text source: Various texts by ancient Roman writer Ovid (43 B.C. -- A.D. 17) English translations by the composer, Raymond Luedeke
Duration (minutes): 70
First performance: 21 October 2005 University of Western Ontario, Londo, Ontario, Canada
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