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Craig Raine |
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Contents/storyline: This is a poetic drama commissioned by Glyndebourne: Nigel Osborne, the composer proposed that Craig Raine adapt Pasternak's novella 'The Last Summer' for the operatic stage. The Novella is complicated by flashback, obscurity, lack of plot and plenty of trivial event, but the Craig Raine travestied the original, retaining only those elements that appealed to him. He states that he added as much as he subtracted, producing a treatment with three acts of two scenes each. The libretto is also based on Craig Raine's poem 'Spectorsky'. The Chronology of The Electrification of the Soviet Union is as follows: Serzha's arrival at Ousolie takes place in the winter of 1916, immediately prior to the Revolution of February 1917. At Ousolie, Serezha remembers the May and June preceding the outbreak of World War One in July 1914. The epilogue takes place in about 1920 or 1921. Dramatis Personae: Anna Arild Harry Frestln (non-singing) |
1986, Faber & Faber, hbk 1986, Faber & Faber, pbk |
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