NIKOS KOLESIS
TETRALOGY
ELECTRAS CYCLES
KING AGAMEMNON
THEATER
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TETRALOGY
ELECTRAS
CYCLES
KING AGAMEMNON
Α ELECTRAS CYCLES
Β CLYTEMNESTRA
C POST ORESTEIA
D KING AGAMEMNON
THEATER
2
Days
and nights entire
I
waited in vain to turn my husband
from
the war of Troy.
DANCE
Queen
is time to tell us the truth.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Divine
Agamemnon returned from Troy
turned
my king.
Lonely
and desolate waited his return
learning
the terrible rumors
who
wanted him dead.
Was
missing and my son Orestes
In
foreign.
DANCE
Ah!
She suffered many ill-fated woman
your
troubles are endless.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Maids,
slaves
run
and lay out the purple carpet
to
steps on my king.
What
sit, what you wait for
why
so much delay.
DANCE
Whoever
offends the city
offends
the gods,
they
are the same thing.
CLYTEMNESTRA
The
conqueror of Troy,
the
first between the Greeks,
arrived
in Argos why you sit idly.
AGAMEMNON
Queen
Clytemnestra
I
prefer to celebrate me as mortal
despite
as God.
CLYTEMNESTRA
My
king
your
will is order for me.
AGAMEMNONAS
Queen
of Argos
women's
charm is irresistible,
but I am not going to give in.
I
prefer to live life happy
and
to die in old age,
despite
living silly prices and flatteries
and
I have ugly end.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Divine
Agamemnon
I am
a woman
that
waited for with appetence your return.
AGAMEMNON
The
people are righteous judge
In
everything we make, the people decide
If
it is fair, right or wrong.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Courageous
Agamemnon
you
are the conqueror of Troy
an
invincible general,
allowed
a woman
becoming
her own, do her a favor.
AGAMEMNON
You
ask a lot from a king,
you
ask a lot from a man,
doing
back to personal.
CLYTEMNESTRA
I
want to show in every way
how
I care you,
do
not think what will say the Other,
what
will say the city.
AGAMEMNON
Resourceful
Clytemnestra
after
you want so much
as
becomes yours.
I
brought with me a princess
from
Troy slave in the palace.
CLYTEMNESTRA
The
passion -the passion
is
disastrous,
does
not have limits.
DANCE
Clytemnestra
watch your words
be
careful how you talk
they
will listen.
CLYTEMNESTRA
So
many years I waited for the return of Agamemnon
to
happy little the games of Love.
He
left me alone
In
cold and empty bed.
And
now that it came
I do
not know what to make
to
thank him.
DANCE
Fear
is the most bad adviser
when
flooded people.
Furies
lurk
to
get revenge.
CLYTEMNESTRA
The
long song of death
heard
in the all city.
Terrible
Furies sow fear
in
the souls of men.
The
mourners song of Argos
sounds
scary.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Wonderful
Cassandra,
princess
of Troy,
welcome
to Argos.
This
is your place
among
the other slaves.
CASSANDRA
Alas
he found me great calamity
from
Queen I became slave
In
the palace of Argos.
It
comes great disaster
is
on the road.
lovely
Apollo
entranced
I see
comes
the opening of Big Time,
the
passage posthumously.
DANCE
The
invocation of gods should not
be done
without reason or cause.
Cassandra
speak clearly
and
not with oracles.
CASSANDRA
The
deads transparent shadows turn
within
the home,
until
is completed the cycle.
DANCE
Invoke
the divination unnecessarily
this
will have consequences in your life.
CASSANDRA
Men
and women of Argos
evil
is revealed
can
be hidden,
he
has tremendous power.
DANCE
Who
will solve the riddle
of
the world,
who
will uncover the opening
the
big time.
CASSANDRA
Terrible
and dreadful Clytemnestra
already
set up the net of death.
DANCE
You
speak with incomprehensible oracles
we
do not understand.
You
should not provoke
sat
a little quiet.
CASSANDRA
The
Same
finally
awaits us,
the
Same fate
with
mine.
ALL
TOGETHER
The
prophecies are coming
from
the opening of big time.
CASSANDRA
Prophesy
from the shores of Acheron
things
to come.
The
love of Pari with Beautiful Helen
they
brought the black calamity,
the
fierce war, the fall of Troy.
DANCE
Who
filled with fear your guileless soul
and
speaking in this way.
CASSANDRA
Terrible
Furies already started
sing
the song of death.
Only
light, only the opening
they
will bring redemption.
DANCE
What
god or man
made
you speak this incomprehensible language.
ALL
TOGETHER
Who
god
In
taught divination of world.
CASSANDRA
The
god Apollo was terrible Phoebus
that
Delphi is dedicated In him,
the
god of light.
