Facing Goya
Subtitle: an opera in four acts (2000 & 2002, revised 2014)
By: Michael Nyman ; libretto by Victoria Hardie
Contributors: Hardie, Victoria (Librettist), librettist; Keenan, Andy, editor; Editorial Paraiso Music
Edition: Vocal score.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Operas; Vocal scores with piano
Work titles: Facing Goya
Notes: Synopsis and libretto in English preceding the score.

Duration: approximately 150 min.

Commissioned by Editorial Paraiso Music. Premiered in 2000 by the Michael Nyman Band.

"This edition revised by Andy Keenan 2014"--Caption.

Staff notation.
Table of contents: title: Act I. Prelude ; Dogs drowning in sand ; How do I know you know ; Lavater ; Lenardo says ; The size of the brain ; Goya's maja ; Weigh the brain; title: Act II. Theory of proportions ; Stand up and be counted ; Measure my body ; Galton ; Goya's snub nose ; Lombroso ; And Goya cried; title: Act III. Where is Goya ; Sequence the gene ; Man impaled ; The risky gene ; Mutation song ; Brilliant body ; Take its D.N.A. ; Goya's skull ; Tortured prisoner; title: Act IV. That day decided ; We have cracked the genome ; I wanted rid of it ; And cloning is here to stay ; How can you be so stupid ; Forgive me.