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Aquarius (opera)
''Aquarius'' is an opera for eight sopranos, eight baritones, and orchestra by Karel Goeyvaerts. It was begun in 1983 and completed in April 1992, to a libretto by the composer in eight languages, incorporating lines from the ''Revelation of St. John''.
==History==
''Aquarius'' in its final form is an opera, but its composition involved a number of preliminary pieces for various forces, so that Goeyvaerts preferred to speak of the "''Aquarius'' project". Goeyvaerts's inspiration came from principally four sources: Marilyn Ferguson's book ''The Aquarian Conspiracy'' (which he was given in 1983 by his friend Boudewijn Buckinx), the astrological theory of epochs, the Revelation of St. John, and the Beatos Apocalypse manuscripts by the 8th-century exegete Beatus of Liébana (; ).
Because no large, single commission for the entire opera was initially offered, Goeyvaerts set about composing the components separately, often for smaller forces than he intended for the definitive version. In this way, nearly all of his works from 1983 onward are related to ''Aquarius'' in one way or another. At last a commission from the Brussels Opera and deSingel, later joined by Antwerp '93, enabled Goeyvaerts to complete the opera in April 1992. When he suddenly died on 3 February 1993, he had not finished correcting the manuscript for publication. This task was carried out by Mark De Smet .
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