| Suffering in an unhappy marriage, Woman yearns for a world beyond the boundaries of flesh and an existence outside of the conventions of human society. A secret young Lover’s desire instigates an explosive metamorphosis, and Woman finds perfect release as a tree. Sivan Eldar composes with Like Flesh her first opera on a libretto by Cordelia Lynn, a poetic saga inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. A new eco-feminist myth about our broken relationship with an environment in crisis, interpreted by Maxime Pascal and Le Balcon, and recorded by b*records at Opera de Lille.
1. Like Flesh, Scene 1 “What the Forest Knew”: We Can Tell How Ice Withdrew (Live) (3:39)
2. Like Flesh, Scene 2 “The Birds Don’t Come Here Anymore”: My Wife Changed When the Birds Left (Live) (3:20)
3. Like Flesh, Scene 2 “The Birds Don’t Come Here Anymore”: There Are Fires in the South (Live) (3:55)
4. Like Flesh, Scene 3 “What the Trees Did”: Look How We Shore Our Bodies Up Against Your Ruin (Live) (2:51)
5. Like Flesh, Scene 4 “The Colour Red”: I Went to the University, Said… (Live) (2:23)
6. Like Flesh, Scene 4 “The Colour Red”: Her Face is Carved in Sorrow and Stone (Live) (2:59)
7. Like Flesh, Scene 5 “Lessons Learnt of Kindness”: Talk to Me (Live) (2:56)
8. Like Flesh, Scene 6 “What the Human Did”: The Human Came into the Forest with an Axe (Live) (0:19)
9. Like Flesh, Scene 7 “The Third Dream”: Hotter Now and Lazy (Live) (2:18)
10. Like Flesh, Scene 7 “The Third Dream”: Dreamt I Found a Creature Under a Rock (Live) (4:43)
11. Like Flesh, Scene 7 “The Third Dream”: Insects Burrow Under my Skin (Live) (3:05)
12. Like Flesh, Scene 8 “What the Human Did Next”: Fruits Nuts Acorns (Live) (4:04)
13. Like Flesh, Scene 9 “So. Your Wife Has Turned into a Tree”: The Forester and The Student (Live) (1:39)
14. Like Flesh, Scene 9 “So. Your Wife Has Turned into a Tree”: When the Student Came to Me, Said… (Live) (5:09)
15. Like Flesh, Scene 10 “Regret”: I Am Afraid of You (Live) (2:36)
16. Like Flesh, Scene 11 “What the Forest Saw”: We Can Tell Where the Bodies Are Buried (Live) (1:03)
17. Like Flesh, Scene 12 “A Tree Remembers”: The Student and The Tree (Live) (1:23)
18. Like Flesh, Scene 12 “A Tree Remembers”: Summer Falls Aways from Us (Live) (2:44)
19. Like Flesh, Scene 12 “A Tree Remembers”: Here Again, Always Here (Live) (3:28)
20. Like Flesh, Scene 12 “A Tree Remembers”: The Machines Come Closer (Live) (2:40)
21. Like Flesh, Scene 12 “A Tree Remembers”: I Love You (Live) (2:49)
22. Like Flesh, Scene 12 “A Tree Remembers”: My Language Isn’t Quick Enough (Live) (2:09)
23. Like Flesh, Scene 13 “Wood Behaviour”: Came Back These Nights (Live) (3:13)
24. Like Flesh, Scene 14 “Entanglement”: Who Carved You? (Live) (5:21)
25. Like Flesh, Scene 15 “Winter, Again.”: The Student Changed with The Weather” (Live) (5:05)
26. Like Flesh, Scene 15 “Winter, Again.”: We Can Tell How the Trees Began Their Slow Migration North (Live) (4:50) |
