Women have loved before as I love now
Song Title | Women have loved before as I love now (Search) |
Composer(s): | Jake Heggie |
Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
Author(s): | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Author Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Alive; Amorous; Ancient; Bearing; Beds; Breasts; Burning; Careless; Chronicles; Cities; Cornish; Cost; Day; Death; Harmful Love; History; Hunting; Infidelity; Invading; Irish; Knights; Lines; Lively; Love; Loving; Masts; Metaphor: Love as Burning City; Ophelia; Painful Love; Passions; Past; Prows; Queens; Skimming; Sonnet; Spartan; Suffering; Surviving; Thinking; Treacherous; Trojan; Waters; Willful; Women |
First Line | Women have loved before as I love now; (Search) |
Average Duration | 3:15 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1999 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | https://songofamerica.net/song/women-have-loved-before/ |
Larger Work | Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLgDqo5GFfA |
Catalog Designation | No. 2 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | High voice |
Premiered By | Peggy Kriha-Dye (Search) |
Notes | Premiered May 9, 1999, Old First Church, San Francisco; Peggy Kriha-Dye, soprano; Jake Heggie, piano (Search) |
Contributor | GTM (Search) |