As the provocative new opera in four acts by Michael Nyman on a libretto by Victoria Hardie, Facing Goya takes the listener on a fantastical journey into the dark worlds of racist stereotyping, gene therapy and cloning while simultaneously dealing with the elitism and prejudice of various movements in pseudosciences and art criticism.

Tracklist

Disc: 1
1. ACT 1: Prelude/Dogs drowning in sand
2. How do I know you
3. Lavater
4. Leonardo says
5. The size of the brain
6. Weight the brain
7. ACT II: The theory of proportions
8. Stand up and be counted
9. Measure my body
10. Galton
11. Goya's snub nose
12. Lombroso
13. And Goya cried

Disc: 2
1. ACT 2: Where is Goya?
2. The sequence of the gene
3. A man impaled
4. The risky gene
5. Mutation
6. Brilliant body
7. Take its DNA
8. Give me Goya's skull
9. Tortured prisoner
10. ACT 4: That day we decided
11. We've cracked the genome
12. I wanted rid of it
13. And cloning is here to stay
14. How can you be so stupid
15. Forgive me

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