A libretto for Rudolf Rojahn's Bovinus Rex, a chamber opera for four singers and four instrumentalists.
SYNOPSIS: Pickens PickingÕs Farm, a factory farm for cattle in rural Ohio, faces imminent bank foreclosure. With only a trophy wife and a slow-witted man child as laborers the owner and operator, Maurice Pickens, invents a machine to quickly slaughter his herd. Trouble unfolds when his long-lost daughter Flavia, now a militant animal rights activist, returns disguised as a heifer to sabotage her fatherÕs operation. As events begin to spin out of control Flavia is forced to confront the practicality of her once-puritanical worldview.
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