Word: sorel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Menotti stretched his libretto and music around a situation of almost completely unrelieved pathos and tragedy. His heroine, Magda Sorel (Soprano Patricia Neway), applies for a visa to join her resistance-leader husband, who has been hounded out of his unnamed country by the secret police. "The Consul" himself never appears; his secretary chants a bored refrain to all comers...