BOETHIUS Act 1 Aria @ Uni St Louis MI

Gabrielle Widman, Soprano - Philosophy
Carson Lattimore - Flute
Margaret Trenchard-Smith - librettist and Clio
Kevin Bryant Lay - composer and lyre harpist
Aria from Act 1 of the forthcoming opera BOETHIUS - performed at St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Philosophy (with harmonies by Clio): Aria “I Shall Guide You” Te Ducam
(in LATIN)
”Te ducam, dilecte,
ad ‘anamnesis’,
ad tui memoriam veram,
scientia innata.
Te ducam, electe,
supra sensum, supra imaginationem, supra rationem,
ad intellectionem, quae directe tangit Divinum,
donec in perpetuis sphaeris nidificaris tutus,
aeternae supra sempiternae.
Haec perpendens, vitam tuam recensens,
scies malum nullum esse.
Solum Bonum vere existit.
Ex his consolatio tua veniet."
ENGLISH translation:
“I shall guide you, beloved,
Towards ἀναμνήσις,
Self-remembrance, your knowledge inborn.
I shall guide you, my chosen,
Above sensation, imagination, and rational thought,
To intellection, which directly touches the Divine,
Till you are nested safe within its ever-present spheres,
Eternal beyond the sempiternal.
Pondering these things after reviewing your life,
You will know that evil has no being in itself.
Only the Good truly exists.
Your consolation will come from these reflections."

[@DanielGallCreativeWorks]

Awesome!

[@KevinLay-o6t]

Thanks, Daniel!