Round 7: Tossup 19

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

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