The Mapmaker’s Opera

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Bea Gonzalez. The Mapmaker’s Opera

BÉA GONZALEZ. The. MAPMAKER’S OPERA

Copyright

Dedication

Seguiriya

Dramatis Personae

Contents

Overture

SCENE ONE. As we walk on sacred ground

SCENE TWO. We listen to the woes of Doña Fernanda

SCENE THREE. On a stone bench, a seguiriya

SCENE FOUR. Inside a bookstore on the Calle San Vicente

SCENE FIVE. Sorry her lot

SCENE SIX. The house on the other side of the world

SCENE ONE. In a Mérida square

SCENE TWO. Two birds

SCENE THREE. In a Mérida bookstore

SCENE FOUR. A hacienda on the outskirts of bliss itself

SCENE ONE. Inside the oldest cathedral of the New World

SCENE TWO. At the Virgen de Guadalupe Ball

SCENE THREE. Ah! je vais l’aimer – Béatrice et Bénédict

SCENE FOUR. A song with wings

SCENE FIVE. Two birds in hand

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Publisher

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For Andrew, who taught me to look up at the sky, and our dear pingüinos, Will and Andre, who bring such joy to our lives.

Title Page

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But this, claro, only if the good Lord Himself should think it best.

El Señor Raleigh lowered his voice to a whisper. “There is a rumour in Madrid that a map exists of the seven cities of Cíbola, drawn by the one man who made it there but took the secret with him to his grave. That man was an Andalusian and it is thought that his map is in the possession of one of the booksellers of Seville. Is it you, Don Emilio?” he asked with a chuckle.

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