(MUSIC, LYRICS, & STAGING)

A student practice session turns into a joy session as she is discovering her notes slowly disappearing from her manuscript. A composer sings: "Music, mans untamable beast, swallowing silence is his greatest feast", as the notes he writes down in a few seconds disappear. In a music library students studying music scores experience a rolling power black out. When the power comes back on all their scores are blank. They sing: "Lines so lonely, lines so long, what has happened to the notes that used to roam, creating a song. What a wild and scary sight, note less staffs, have lost their might".

The composer unwilling to accept this situation starts to compose tonal music on one piano on the stage and atonal on the other piano. In between he sings: "Gone are the good old days of the past, but talking about them will always last." This among other arias. As he goes back from one piano to the other checking out his composition, and seeing them disappearing in no time. He keeps going back and forth faster and sings in between faster etc. until he finally collapses with his head on his desk. The stage becomes dark, and we see a Dr. and a female angel both dressed in white coming down. The Dr. is holding the composers heart and starts to sing: 'this heart of yours, has lost its beat, before your life has been complete".
Finally we see musicians on the stage as their notes slowly disappear from their manuscript. Thus leaving them less and less to play. Bringing the opera to a note-less end. With a complete SILENCE, points the gun to the side of her head and pulls the trigger.