Song Details for: I Read
Show: Passion (Info / Wikipedia)
Composer: Stephen Sondheim (Info / Wikipedia)
- Character's Age
- 33-39, 25-32
- Voice Type
- Mezzo/Belt/Alto
- Tempo
- Easy Ballad
- Comedic/Dramatic
- Dramatic
- Lyricist
- Stephen Sondheim (Info / Wikipedia)
- Year Written
- 1994
- Original Key
- G Minor
- Time Signature
- 3/2
- Voice Range
- F3 - D♭5 (Middle C = C4)
- Accompanist Difficulty
- 5
- Page Numbers
- 47-53
- Popularity
- Somewhat popular
Comments: Fosca arrives after dinner to thank Giorgio for the books. When he suggests she keep a novel longer to meditate over it, she explains that she does not read to think or search for truth, but to live vicariously through the characters. She then goes off into a dark musing on her life.
Difficult and challenging piece!!