Again and Again and Again

Again and Again and Again is a comic chamber opera in one act based somewhat on Pierre Corneille’s classic meta-theatrical fantasy L’Illusion Comique and traces a father’s search for his son across four centuries. In rural France in 1789, Pridament, nearing the end of his life, visits the cave of the sorcerer Alcandra and asks him to help find his estranged son Clément who ran away from him ten years before. Alcandra agrees to show Pridament thre...