Cast
• Daughter of the Sorceress - soprano 1
• Queen*- alto
• Cartographer - baritone
• Parabolic Princess - soprano
• Ugly Princess - mezzo-soprano
• Princess who causes an Eclipse with her Head - alto
• Sorcerers - percussion and harp
• Queen's Pets - clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone
• Cartographer's Telescope/Microscope - oboe
• The Religion - piano
*The role of The Queen and the Ugly Princess can be undertaken by the same singer.

The Magic of the Kingdom is characterized by spontaneity and miracles so that when a spell
works, the Sorcerers relegate it to the field of Science.
It is said that the Sorcerers work to keep the equilibrium of the Kingdom in a kind of
“straightforward-alchemy”. When something disappears in one place, a different thing may
appear somewhere else. For example, if someone turns off a blue light in the Peasants' neighborhood, a rain drop falls in the Zoo, so there is a knock on the door, thus a small planet collapses, and in consequence the blue light turns on… and so on…

with emotions, will and reason. He thinks of them as slow and rather languid animals”.