from the one act Italian opera
Il Sogno di Scipione by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
Role: La Constanza, the spirit of Constancy
Voice Part: soprano Fach: lyric coloratura
Setting: the temple of Heaven
Synopsis: When Scipione asks why he cannot hear the harmony of the spheres, Constancy replies that it is too intense for humans to behold. Besides, humans have grown deaf to it since they constantly live within it.