- Peggy Glanville-Hicks
The Transposed Heads (1954)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
- 1111/0111/perc/hp/str(3.3.2.2.1)
- SATB chorus
- Tenor, Baritone, Soprano, speaking voice, speaking role
- 1 hr 20 min
- Libretto after a story by Thomas Mann.
- English
Programme Note
Synopsis:
Sita has married Shridaman but soon after falls in love with his friend Nanda. The husband cuts off the lover’s head. Sita in turn beheads her husband and when she places the heads back on the bodies, she finds that she has mixed them up. In the end, all three die so that they can be reunited in the afterworld.
Sita has married Shridaman but soon after falls in love with his friend Nanda. The husband cuts off the lover’s head. Sita in turn beheads her husband and when she places the heads back on the bodies, she finds that she has mixed them up. In the end, all three die so that they can be reunited in the afterworld.