Hon drömde en annan dikt,
gick och sökte efter den..
(She dreamed a different poem,
went looking for it)
The Swedish is from my mother's side of the family, so the lyrics in Swedish have a lot to do with my connection to her.
The opera is composed in all of the languages from which I am descended. This is having quite an extraordinary effect on the process of writing the music. More about the other languages, another day. en annan tag.
