Tom's Aria about Pest Control

aria for tenor from Companionship (PDF Download)

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Recovering from a nervous breakdown, aspiring baker LESLIE SINCLAIR finally reaches the end of her obsessive quest to bake the perfect baguette when the 207,345th one suddenly comes to life. Companionship mirrors our contemporary world, where what we consume becomes all-consuming. By this point in the opera, the penultimate scene, the DOUGH has fashioned a mate for itself and reproduced prolifically. The Loaves exhaust LESLIE with their constant need to be fed. VIV, LESLIE’S more conventionally attractive fraternal twin, brings her exterminator and flavor of the month boyfriend, TOM, over to LESLIE’S apartment to eliminate the baguettes. Instead, he befriends the DOUGH and refuses.