Summary
The cast includes Gugliemo Priapo, 'ex-Presidente' (tenore mentitore) and Sara Palino 'Governatrice d'Alaska e Reginetta di Bellezza' (coloratura buffa). The first Act has L'Obama healing lepers, resurrecting the dead daughter of a Washington policeman and singing of how he has released the nation from the tyranny of Giorgio Secondo ('Dopo si lunga notte'). But Gugliemo and his disappointed wife, Hillaria (soprano ambizioso) are conspiring against L'Obama.
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The Spectator's Notes
John Milton is 400 years old this month, and there is justified lamentation that nobody reads him for pleasure. Although Milton is renowned for his learning and complexity, he was also the master of simplicity. Almost my earliest memory of poetry of any kind is singing Milton's version of Psalm 136 at my kindergarten. 'Let us with a g...
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