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Character Name
Somnus
Show
Gender
Male
Adult, Mature Adult, Young Adult
Supporting
Non Dancer
Voice
Bass
High Note
D4
Low Note
A2
Vocal Technique
Operatic
Time & Place
Antiquity, Ancient Times, Temple of Juno, Somnus's Cave, Olympus, Thebes, Cithaeron
Analysis
Somnus is the god of sleep, or the personification of sleep. His son Morpheus is the bringer of dreams. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, from which this version of Semele’s story is taken, Somnus lives in a cave which never sees daylight, where the river Lethe flows into a pool.
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