Eileen Farrell Sings “To this we’ve come,“ From Menotti’s The Consul

The great American soprano in a bone-chilling rendition of this aria from The Consul, which tells of Magda’s despair at not being able to crack through the bureaucracy keeping her from leaving her country. The Consul, which had its world premiere in 1950, in Philadelphia, went on to play in many European capitols. It tells a common story of the time; red tape preventing freedom-loving people from escaping their own countries’ dictatorships to find refuge in a free world, even if they have relatives in an