I Know Him Now from Horned & Hidden Child | McQueston/Yackley

Dec. 9, 2024 | Ann Arbor, MI
Music by Mikeila McQueston
Libretto by Nicole Yackley
Mikeila McQueston, soprano
Taylor Flowers, piano
Nelson Walker, videographer
About "I Know Him Now"
In this Act II aria, Ariadne must confront her actions and decide whom she will remain loyal to: Karen (the leader of a fringe group publishing anti-minotaur materials) or her half-brother, the minotaur himself.
About Horned & Hidden Child
Picture a world in which stories never die. Just down the street is the Halfway House for the Mythically Challenged, where fairytale creatures learn how to prepare for job-interviews. This is the world of Pasiphae, a beautiful sorceress, queen, and former wife of the ancient King Minos. After millennia on her own, she enlists the help of her Greek Chorus to rescue her children from their respective prisons - first Ariadne from the island Naxos, and now the Minotaur from Daedalus’ labyrinth. Horned & Hidden Child is a contemporary opera with music by Mikeila McQueston and libretto by Nicole Yackley. It tells the story of Pasiphae, the Minotaur, and Ariadne as they repair their broken family amidst 21st century tensions.