Overview
Character Name
Pasqualita
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Mezzo-Soprano, Contralto
Vocal Range
High Note: F5
Low Note: F#3/Gb3
Vocal Technique
Operatic
Time & Place
July, 1945, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Trinity testing site at Alamogordo
Analysis
Pasqualita is Kitty Oppenheimer’s maid, and nurse to baby Katherine Oppenheimer, who is seven months old. She is a Tewa Indian, and several times through the opera she sings a traditional song of the Tewa, about a storm approaching; ‘In the north the cloud-flower blossoms’.
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