A passionate and dramatic story in five songs, for solo soprano with string orchestra. Inspired by the voice of Ekaterina Siurina. Duration approx 20 minutes.
Song No. 5
Fate, I laugh at you! Ha!
Outrageous Fortune!
You do not win!
You took my Anna.
You took her husband
In a bloody car crash.
Her two teen daughters
left desolate.
Oh, my miraculous Anna is dead.
Dead. Gone from me forever.
Do you think that destroys me?
Do you think my love song is over?
I will not succumb. I will not bow
To the horrors of this life.
Fate, you rat bastard!
I laugh at you! Ha! Ha!
I grieve as deeply as anyone,
But my spirit is not broken.
No turn of Fate defines me.
I choose to love, and love, and love.