FRANK HERBERT'S NOTES FOR "DUNE OPERA"

Open with Paul against a gauzy background:

Child sings, "When I was a boy."
BLACKOUT

Older child sings, "When I was a boy."
BLACKOUT

Third, older child sings, "When I was a boy."
BLACKOUT

Concludes with a trio, all three ages.

CURTAIN UP

Song Ideas:

Duet with Jessica, "My Duke is dead."
Paul: "He is dead, my father is dead."

"Ride the Worm"

"Chani Beloved"

Duet with Baron and Piter:
Baron: "Why do they hate me?"
Piter: "Why do they hate you?"

Shaddam: "I am Shaddam, I am Emperor of the Universe."

Chani: "I love this man. Not a god, but a man."
Chani: "Carry me to ecstasy."

Paul: "Do not go there, Beloved! Into the future-"

(A matter of speed [in Time] to go faster into the Future)

Chani & Paul, duet, in oasis setting, moonlight
Paul: "Dunes-the dunes, the dunes as far as the eye can see."
Chani: "This lovely land. . ."

Hawat: "Keep me from evil. Deliver me from evil."

Paul: "We throw our reality onto the Universe like a net-and when the net fdalls, defining the shape within it-what happens when the shape fails to meet our expectations?"

Idaho: "A sword is a sword is a sword.
"A man is a man, etc.
"A boy is a boy, etc."
Halleck: "A mood is a mood, etc."
Hawat: "A mind is a mind, etc."

Paul: "Why was I born? I was born for this-born to rule."
Jessica: "Why was I born? Born to love."

Paul and Alia duet
Paul: "I am an old, old man. Many lives have I. This world, this dirt beneath my feet. What must I predict?"
Alia: "You look at me and see what is not. This child was never a child."

Battle scene, chorus: "We are Fremen."

Stilgar: "Dust falls upon me, beautiful dust. I have seen a worm, long as a ship of space, Old Man of the Desert."

Minor key lament:
"This cup of spice-it will carry me far.
I will abandon my flesh, live another's life, around another star.
Melange, they call it-melange, melange!"