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Aria is the first 4-5 minutes of this scene

Silent, Ice! 

opera aria for tenor (or high voice) and piano, from ​White Horizon

by Lisa Neher

4 1/2 minutes
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​In 1893, Fritdjof Nansen, along with a crew of twelve and five years of provisions, set sail aboard the Fram with a plan most of his fellow explorers thought foolish: to freeze the ship into the pack ice and let the east-west currents of the Arctic ocean carry them to the North Pole. White Horizon tells the story of the expedition from the perspective of Nansen and fellow shipmate Hjalmar Johansen, and attempts to capture the hopes, fears, triumphs, and frustrations they experienced along the way. The third character in the opera is the ice itself, represented by musical motifs, particularly in the percussion, piano, and keyboard. The explorers’ interactions with the ice as both a companion and an adversary mirror humankind’s restless relationship with the natural world. 


In Silent, Ice!, Johansen surveys the arctic landscape and describes how the expedition has taken a turn for the worse, while being haunted by the mocking sounds of scraping ice.
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