INSTRUMENTATION

12 instruments

2 flutes (also playing piccolos)

2 clarinets (one alternately playing bass clarinet)

French horn

2 trumpets

Bass trombone/trombone

Timpani

2 percussion

Harp

CAST

The Narrator

The Sorcerer – Artemis

The Apprentice –Papilo

The King – Pravus

The Contestants – Fortus and Lepos

The Maidens of the Mist – Meris and Maryn

The Dark Sorcerer – Malum

The Shadow Land Witches – Celia, Delia, and Elia

The Daughter – Alexandra

Full Chorus and Greek Chorus

Four Gryphons – costumed individuals (no spoken/sung role)

THE STORY

A mythological tale of a sorcerer who tries to change his war torn world for the better. After choosing a king, this sorcerer is lead to a sword by the maidens of the mist. It is guarded by three blind witches who he tricks into giving him the sword. Unknown to him, it is imbued with an evil spirit. The new king he has chosen becomes possessed by this spirit the minute he touches the sword and leads his armies in a tirade of mass destruction. The sorcerers magic isn't powerful enough to stop him so he must rely on an even more evil source of power, the rejected son of a god and a human, a demigod, banished to a mountain, who waits for a day he can defeat the gods. A solution to the sorcerer's problem is rendered and a trade for the evil sword is agreed upon as soon as the king is destroyed. Born of this dark art is the gryphon. A  Noble yet lethal creature who is indestructible and comes to life only at night to punish the power hungry and greedy. The king is vanquished and destroyed. Buried in the sands of time forever. This  leaves his peaceful daughter to rebuild the world he and the evil spirit almost destroyed.