Amistad, Act II, Scene VI: Aria "They come as if from the heavens" by Bill Doggett published on 2021-01-26T21:58:30Z Known as "The Goddess of The Waters" aria from Amistad, this is a critical aria performed spectacularly by the renowned Mezzo Soprano, Florence Quivar that speaks to the trauma of her character,"Yemeya", The Yoruba Goddess of The Waters who witnesses in horror the tragedy of the Transatlantic Slave Ship Holocaust..... captured Africans who escape by suicide by jumping overboard or thrown overboard by the ship owners after they have suffered disease or death on the months long passage known as "The Middle Passage". The searing text is by Thulani Davis. This is from the world premiere in 1997 of the opera at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Genre Classical
