NIKOS KOLESIS
TETRALOGY
ELECTRAS CYCLES
KING AGAMEMNON
OPERA
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TETRALOGY
ELECTRAS
CYCLES
KING AGAMEMNON
Α ELECTRAS CYCLES
Β CLYTEMNESTRA
C POST ORESTEIA
D KING AGAMEMNON
ΟPΕΡΑ
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You
do not know the suffering that I lived,
you
speak because you do not know
what
I spent so many years
living
in the shadow of Agamemnon.
DANCE
Will
come revenge
Atreides
from Orestes.
AEGISTHUS
Guards,
guards
arrest
fast
and
close in the prison the fools
they
have the nerve to speak.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Aegisthus
what
are you doing
enough
blood was shed in Argos,
the
passions of Atreides must finish
giving
an end.
TROADES-
TROJAN WOMEN
Women
of Troy
we became
slaves to the palace of Agamemnon.
We
have no chance, no future
the
worst thing could happen to us.
CASSANDRA
My
father King Priam
was
a great king.
I
was a real princess
and
now crawling slave
to
gratify the appetites of Agamemnon.
TROADES
We lived
really happy in Troy,
we
played, laughed and sang
completely
innocent.
Now
the black darkness of tyranny
flooded
our pure souls.
CASSANDRA
Loves
of Beautiful Helen caused
the
fall of Troy.
so
much pain, so much tears for Helen
For
a unsettled woman they were killed
thousands
of warriors Greeks and Trojans.
WOMEN
OF TROY
Cassandra
lovely
princess
courage,
courage
do
not let the pain, grief and despair
to
lure in.
CASSANDRA
I am
a cursed
I
will never return in Troy
and
the magnificent palaces,
I
will never be happy in Argos.
TROADES
The
voices, the cries, screams
sounds
even to our ears
from
the burning of the castle.
The
Greeks looted the city
they
took immense wealth as loot.
CASSANDRA
The
largest loss was when lost
my
father King Priam.
TROADES
The
voices, the shouts of the Trojans
they
shook our souls.
Running
barmy to escape
from
the fury of conquerors.
CASSANDRA
Such
disaster never happened again
Burned
houses palaces
there
was nothing standing.
DANCE
Peace
- Peace
Planetary
Peace.
TROADES
Much
afflicted city was conquered completely
from
the conquerors.
Proud
Trojans from free became slaves,
and
those who were lucky and survived
they
fled to foreign countries,
to
continue with their lives.
CASSANDRA
The
mothers were run crazy
to
find their children,
who
lost in the vortex of war.
TROADES
Trojans
were killed as a slaughtered animal
as
if were not people.
Slaughter,
the carnage that followed
after
the fall was incredible.
DANCE
We
are with the deads
the
only enemy is death.
CASSANDRA
Beautiful
Helen of Troy fled to Egypt,
Greeks
and Trojans saw her shadow,
to
walk on the walls of the strife-torn city.
How
mamy vain, how unjustly they fought
for
a woman of destruction for a Helen.
TROADES
Human
life is that more precious exists
in
this world,
should
not be removed for any reason.
ALL
TOGETHER
Love,
Death,
posthumous.
DANCE
The
expedition of Greeks against Troy
done
for the grab of Beautiful Helen,
they
came outside with an army
of
the long-suffering castle
to
get back the unfaithful woman.
CASSANDRA
The
Greeks made the campaign
for
other reasons more serious.
They
wanted to get the fabulous riches
and
her strategic location.
The
conquerors sacrificed unfortunate Iphigenia
to
accomplish their purposes.
TROADES
War
is devastating
ruined
people's lives.
Woe
to anyone who gets
in
maelstrom of war.
CASSANDRA
Wild
passions conquer the souls
revealing
that very well hidden
in
him the man.
The
monster, the beast that destroy everything
and
do not count anything and anyone.
TROADES
The
war games are wild
they
play the game of power
who
will prevail against the other.
AGAMEMNON
War
defined my life
changed
my character,
he
made me another man.
He
made me see life with different eyes
more
simple, more natural.
DANCE
Triumphal
procession of winners arrived
in
famous Argos.
King
Agamemnon
the
great conqueror of Troy tortured
enders
winner and triumphant.
AGAMEMNON
Such
epic no man
no
warrior has accomplished to make.
Argives
made me proud as a man
and
as King, as chief of all Greeks.
They
gave their lives to achieve the campaign
those
I think this wonderful day
of return
in homecoming.
