Packet 7: Tossup 19

In an opera centering on a character with this profession, a chorus describes (-5[1])a “shape stupendous” that causes “all the worlds [to be] fear-struck.” A Tewa lullaby about a “cloud-flower” is sung by (15[1])the maid Pasqualita to a character with this profession’s child. In an opera titled for a person with this profession, one character describes being in a “prematurely air-conditioned (-5[1])supermarket” (15[3])before reciting (15[1])Christopher Knowles’s (-5[1])poem (15[1]-5[3])(*) “I Feel the Earth (10[1])Move.” (10[2])Solfège (10[2])syllables are chanted in the five “knee (10[1]-5[1])plays” that connect (10[1])an opera titled (-5[1])for a person with this profession. (10[1])For 10 points, a man with what profession titles Philip Glass’s opera (10[3])Einstein (10[2])on the Beach? (10[4])■END■ (10[20]0[1])

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