What the Spirits Show: Cal’s Aria

for Mezzo & Piano

2023

6 minutes

Commissioned by the Washington National Opera at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and first produced at the Kennedy Center during the 2022/2023 season.

Music by Silen Wellington (they/them)
Libretto by Walken Schweigert (he/him)

This takes the most beautiful moments of What the Spirits Show. In it, Calamus, a shapeshifting teenager, sings about the power of transformation.