Six Metamorphoses after Ovid by Benjamin Britten:
I. Pan, "who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved."
II. Phaeton, "who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled i
nto the river Padus by a thunderbolt."
III. Niobe, "who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain."
IV. Bacchus, "at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women's tattling tongues and shouting out of boys."
V. Narcissus, "who fell in love with his own image and became a flower."
VI. Arethusa, "who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain."
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