Overture

[On a late night in the spring of 1827 the city of Vienna is experiencing the largest lightning storm in its long history. Within a large disheveled room, Ludwig Von Beethoven is slumped over his piano and on the piano sits the just completed manuscript for his Tenth Symphony. It is his final, and he is certain, his greatest work.]
 SINCE THE TIME WHEN RA AND ISIS
 RAISED THE SPHINX OUT OF THE SAND
 AND APOLLO DREAMED ATHENA
 AND MEN BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND
 THAT WHEN DARKNESS FOLDS ON DARKNESS
 IN THE RESTLESS TIDES OF NIGHT
 AND LIGHTNING RAISES SHADOWS
 AND FOR MOMENTS GIVES THEM LIFE
 IT'S BEEN SAID BY THOSE WHO PONDER
 THAT IT SURELY IS A SIGN
 THAT A LIFE TOUCHED BY THE STARS
 IS NOW RUNNING OUT OF TIME
 AND THAT SOMEWHERE IN THAT DARKNESS
 IN THE HEART OF THAT GREAT STORM
 THE WORLD RETURNS A SOUL
 THAT THE GODS CAUSED TO BE BORN
 AND THIS WAS SUCH A STORM
 THE KIND ONE RARELY SEES IN LIFE
 FOR IN A ROOM NOW FILLED WITH SHADOWS
 THE GREAT BEETHOVEN WAS SPENDING
 HIS LAST NIGHT
 [From the shadows a beautiful spirit, Fate, and her deformed dwarf son, Twist, emerge to inform Beethoven of what he has already deeply suspected, that this is to be his last night on earth. They are accompanied by numerous spirits and ghosts from his past.]