How to pronounce “daedalus” in English

a dialogue between Daedalus, the tenor, and the chorus commenting on his actions.

The third movement is a telling of the Daedalus and Icarus story as told by Ovid.

I wanted to treat this one operatically in the sense that Daedalus is a very strong central character to this story.

It was for Minos, legend held, that the architect Daedalus had built the Cretan labyrinth, which housed at its center the fearsome Minotaur, half man, half bull.

And so I thought, I'm going to put an operatic tenor on the stage and he's going to be Daedalus, and much of this piece is going to be