Overview
Character Name
Un Pâtre
Gender
Either Gender
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult, Mature Adult
Role Size
Featured
Dancing
Mover
Voice
Mezzo-Soprano, Countertenor, Contralto
Vocal Range
High Note: E5
Low Note: B3
Vocal Technique
Operatic
Time & Place
Fairy Tale, Normandy, Old-fashioned country home
Analysis
The wallpaper of the child’s room is decorated with shepherds and shepherdesses. At the beginning of the opera, the child tears the wallpaper and leaves it all over the floor. They begin to rise up and dance to a folk-like accompaniment of tambourines and pipes. Un Pâtre (a
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