Soprano voice and piano - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q32132 Ballad from the opera The Golden Dragon. Composed by Peter Eotvos. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 8 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q32132. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q32132). German • English.The Long Journey, the final monologue of the opera The Golden Dragon based on the eponymous play by Roland Schimmelpfennig, has been given the air of a ballad. A young Chinese works illegally in an Asian restaurant of Anytown. Not having a health insurance, he bleeds to death after a botched dental operation. His colleagues throw his body into the river which runs through the town and carries the body to the sea. He floats back to his home country – this last journey is the theme of the monologue.