Sappho the last grand opera of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-90) was written in her stone cottage on the island of Mykonos in 1963. Polaski who creates the role of the aging Sappho describes the opera as 'the kind of music that singers want to sing'.

Tracklist:

Sappho: Act I: Overture
Sappho: Act I Scene 1: Hurry, Joy, Hurry! … Is Your Lady Up? (Chloe, Joy, Doris, Diomedes, Minos)
Sappho: Act I Scene 1: Now, At Last You Are Here (Minos, Sappho)
Sappho: Act I Scene 1: Aria: My Sleep Is Fragile Like An Eggshell Is (Sappho, Minos)
Sappho: Act I Scene 1: Minos! (Kreon, Minos, Sappho)
Sappho: Act I Scene 1: So, Phaon's Back (Minos, Sappho, Phaon)
Sappho: Act I Scene 1: Aria: It Must Have Seemed Like That To Them (Phaon, Minos, Sappho)
Sappho: Act I Scene 1: Phaon, How Is It Kreon Did Not Ask You To Stay (Sappho, Phaon, Minos)
Sappho: Act I Scene 2: The Symposium: Introduction - Phaon Has Become Much Thinner … The Nymph In The Fountain (Minos, Sa
Sappho: Act I Scene 2: The Symposium: Boy! Bring Us The Laurel! … What Are The Fortunes Of The World We Live In? (Diomede
Sappho: Act I Scene 2: The Symposium: Wait, Hear Me First! … The Epigram Contest (Minos, Diomedes, Sappho, Chorus)
Sappho: Act I Scene 2: The Symposium: Sappho! Sappho! … If Death Is Noble (Sappho, Chorus)
Sappho: Act I Scene 2: The Symposium: Ah, It Is You (Phaon, Sappho)
Sappho: Act I Scene 2: The Symposium: Nay, But Always And Forever (Sappho, Phaon)
Sappho: Act II Scene 3: Introduction - What Are You Making? … Here's Minos Coming (Sappho, Phaon, Chorus)
Sappho: Act II Scene 3: Hail To Pittakos (Phaon, Minos, Chorus)
Sappho: Act II Scene 4: Sea Begotten Heroes (Chorus)
Sappho: Act II Scene 4: Admit It Now … Now, Where Is This Brother Of Mine (Sappho, Pittakos, Kreon, Phaon)
Sappho: Act II Scene 4: Ah, Here You Are At Last (Pittakos, Sappho)
Sappho: Act II Scene 4: Aria: You Think I Do Not Feel … Sappho! Sappho! (Pittakos, Sappho, Minos)
Sappho: Act III Scene 5: Diomedes, Oh Diomedes, What Have You Done? (Sappho, Diomedes)
Sappho: Act III Scene 5: Sleep Now (Sappho, Diomedes)
Sappho: Act III Scene 6: Priestess Of The Oracle … Invocation (Sappho, Priestress, Chorus)
Sappho: Act III Scene 6: Oh Mask! (Kreon, Sappho, Chorus)
Sappho: Act III Scene 7: Introduction
Sappho: Act III Scene 7: The Voting Must Be Over (Minos, Sappho)
Sappho: Act III Scene 7: Aria: I Am Very Tired (Minos, Sappho)
Sappho: Act III Scene 7: Sappho! Sappho! It Is Exile (Pittakos, Sappho, Minos)
Sappho: Act III Scene 7: Now Everything Is Silence And Remoteness (Sappho)

UPC: 5060113441546
Label: Toccata
Release Date: 11.13.12
Format: CD

Jennifer Condon - Sappho (2 CD)