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Music. Polis Charalambous

Libretto:  Polis Charalambous

 

Act A

The play is based on Hesiod's Cosmogonia (Genesis) presenting the Creation of the World. Uranus, son and husband of Gaia, is afraid of losing his power, so he sends all his children in Tartara. The Mother Gaia is crying and pleads with Uranus to let her see and be with her children, but this is not possible. Gaia then, decides to visit Tartara so she can ask her children to help her to achieve her plan to castrate her husband so she can prevent him of having other children that will be thrown in Tartara.

Her children refuse to help her, out of fear, but eventually, the youngest son, Cronus decides to help his mother with plan. While Gaia and Uranus are in bed together, Cronus cuts off Uranus’s testicles and throws them into the sea. They fell into the sea of Paphos in Palepaphos, from semen within them goddess Aphrodite was created and born.

 

 

 

 

ACT B

In the second act Aphrodite appears on the stage and the three sisters “ORES” daughters of Zeus and Thetis are helping her to be adorned. Followed by an Aria, Zeus as Lord God welcomes Aphrodite in Olympus treating her as an equal goddess. The play, takes approximate 2 hours and 30’ minutes with a break. Finale is following ACT B.   In the Finale the main soloists praise the generators and creators of the Cosmos.