20-21 / 23
Roxane Coss
soprano
an American soprano
Katsumi Hosokawa
bass
the chairman of an electronics
corporation in Japan
General Alfredo
tenor
the leader of the terrorist
organization MRTA
General Benjamín
bass
second in command of MRTA
Joachim Messner
baritone
a representative from
the Red Cross
Gen Watanabe
tenor
Mr. Hosokawa’s translator
Carmen
mezzo
a young woman
member of MRTA
Christopf
tenor
Roxane’s accompanist
Rubén Iglesias
tenor
the vice president of Peru
Characters
Father Arguedas
baritone
a Catholic priest
César
countertenor
a young man and
member of MRTA
Simon Thibault
baritone
the French ambassador
Edith Thibault
mezzo
his wife
Victor Fyodorov
bass
a Russian diplomatw
Ismael
tenor
a young man and
member of MRTA
Beatriz
soprano
a young woman and
member of MRTA
German woman
soprano
a diplomat
The Spanish ambassador to Peru
tenor
A soldier of the Peruvian army
baritone
When Peruvian terrorists storm a high–profile party, international
guests are caught in a political crisis. Trapped together, hostages
and captors form unlikely relationships. Love, friendship, and a
utopian community gradually flourish within the mansion walls
confining the disparate group for 126 days. Roxane Coss, a world–
renowned opera diva, becomes the focus of everyone’s hopes
and fears; her music is seen as both a threat and an asset by the
terrorists. Roxane and Hosokawa, a Japanese tycoon, fall in love;
his interpreter, Gen, and a female terrorist, Carmen, are also forced
to keep their love a secret. The couples’ dreams and hopes for the
future are abruptly shattered when the army storms the mansion to
liberate the hostages, leaving many casualties behind. Their love,
however, lives on in the form of music.
BRIEF SYNOPSIS
Additional terrorists
16–
voice chorus
Additional hostages
32–
voice chorus