The Final Line

Story and composition: Ardashes Agoshian 

Duration: 45 minutes
Dedication: Opera Quartet (Istanbul)

Personages:

The Painter (Ballerina): A middle-aged women painter. She is in love with a male ballet dancer. The Male Ballet Dancer (Ballerino): A middle twenties, young man. He has an extrovert, materialist, dissolute and shallow character.
The Angel (Child Ballerina)

Ensemble: Mezzo-soprano, Flute, Viola, Harp, Double bass
Place: The painter’s home. A room in a vintage Armenian house in Samatya (Istanbul).

Synopsis: The painter falls in love with a young ballet dancer but he does not reciprocate the painter's love. One night miracle happens. An angel gives the painter the power to make everything she draws real. When the ballet dancer understands the power of her, he tries to use it for his benefit. He deceives her with the promise of a happy relationship in return for drawing himself as the best ballet dancer in the world. The painter accepts the offer and draws what the ballet dancer wants. But the ballet dancer uses her for one night and the day after dumps her. The painter goes crazy. She draws the ballet dancer to a very high place to get revenge without a platform. The ballet dancer falls and dies. When the painter realizes what he has done, he cannot bear the pain. He draws a heart on his heart and commits suicide by drawing a line in the centre of the heart.