Night of Blue Magic, a 14-minute opera (includes libretto and score)

Soprano, Baritone, SAB chorus, piano

14:00 in 1 Continuous Act A setting of 22 haiku by Karen Hesse

A woman is held against her will in a secret place in the center of a lake. A horseman, assigned to guard her and prevent her escape, may also be the man to whom she has been sold. The woman’s dreams give her a chance at escape, but the horseman intercedes. A terrible battle ensues as the horseman seeks to destroy the power of her dreams. Both falter as they “drop into the soundless lake.” But the struggle and seeming defeat has transformed the horseman, and they are now able to encounter each other free of the past. The opera ends with the hope of a new beginning.