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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477319003321

Autore

Žekulin Nicholas G

Titolo

The Story of an Operetta : Le dernier sorcier by Pauline Viardot and Ivan Turgenev, Vol. 1 / Nicholas G. Žekulin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt a.M, : PH02, 1989

Edizione

[1st, New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 p.) : , EPDF

Collana

Vorträge und Abhandlungen zur Slavistik ; 15

Soggetti

Literature & literary studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Nota di contenuto

1867 Baden-Baden: The Théâtre du Thiergarten - 1868 Baden-Baden: Two Seasons - 1869 Weimar: Der letzte Zauberer - 1869 Baden-Baden: The Théâtre Viardot - 1870 Année Climatérique (I):  "The Karlsruhe Affair" - 1870 Année Climatérique (2): Drang nach Osten

Sommario/riassunto

Few readers of the works of the Russian author Ivan Turgenev are aware of the fact that he occasionally engaged in the writing of libretti. Even fewer people realize that Turgenev was interested in libretti-both theoretically and in practice- for much of his literary career. No attempt has yet been made to study his libretti in their essential context, that of Pauline Viardot׳s music. The present two-part study represent an effort at considering this apect of his life and work. It is based primarily on le Dernier Sorcier [The Last Sorcerer], arguably the best and most important of the Turgenev-Viardot operettas.