Mary of Egypt

Movements

Act I

1. "Grunt and groan" (Swine men and women) / "Come and buy" (Swine men and women)
2. "Grunt and groan" (Swine men and women) / "We bring our wres" (Swine men and women)
3. "Here I sit and beat my brain" (Zossima)
4. "Let me consider, yet once more" (Zossima)
5. "Never raised a thieving arm" (Zossima)
6. "Take Me!" (Mary)
7. "The ways to salvation" (The Voice)
8. "We see the cross before us" (Young Men)
9. "Zossima! The ways to salvation" (The Voice)
10. Prologue "With unearthly stillness"

Act II

1. "I will praise the Lord" (Monks)
2. "The ways to salvation" (The Voice)
3. "We are the desert monks" (Monks)
4. Aria "And I, the stranger" (Zossima)
5. Prologue "With Unearthly Stillness"
6. The Exaltation of the Cross
7. The Prayer of Mary "O Virgin Lady" (Mary)

Act III

1. "But here, my Lady" (Zossima)
2. "Holy, Holy" (Angels)
3. "I pray you" (Mary)
4. "In Egypt, I lived" (Mary)
5. "Monk-priest Zossima" (Mary)
6. "Why run from me" (Zossima)
7. Duet "I beg you" (Zossima, Mary)
8. Prologue "With unearthly stillness"

Act IV

1. Episode I. Zossima searches for Mary
2. Episode II. Mary walks on the water
3. Episode III. Communion
4. Episode IV. Mary returns on the water
5. Episode V. Zossima goes
6. The Angels' song

Act V

1. Love's whirligig
2. "Judge not!" (Chorus)
3. "Priest-monk Zossima" (Zossima)
4. "The ways to salvation" (The Voice)
5. Threnody for Mary