"Hidayat di Penjara" (Hidayat in Jail) is a beautifully touching duet aria for baritone & soprano from the opera "Pro Patria" (music by Ananda Sukarlan, libretto taken from the book "Kalah & Menang" by Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana), where in the opera Hidayat, almost dying after days of torture by the Japanese army, expresses his homesickness and his missing of his family. He then is joined by his wife, Kartini, singing from home, and later both sing an "imaginary duet".
This performance was taken during the Jakarta New Year Concert 2011. Ananda Sukarlan can be followed at twitter.com/anandasukarlan
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