Native title Жизнь с идиотом First performance 13 April 1992 Librettist Viktor Yerofeyev Adapted from Life with an Idiot | Written 1992 Language Russian | |
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Premiere 13 April 1992 (1992-04-13)Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam Similar Lady Macbeth of the Mtsen, War and Peace, Semyon Kotko, The Gambler, The Nose | ||
Alfred schnittke life with an idiot tango
Life with an Idiot (Russian: Жизнь с идиотом, Zhizn s idiotom ) is an opera by the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke to a Russian libretto by Viktor Erofeyev. An allegory of Soviet oppression, the opera was first performed at Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, on 13 April 1992.
Contents
- Alfred schnittke life with an idiot tango
- life with an idiot by schnittke susanne elmark
- Act One
- Act Two
- Recordings
- References
life with an idiot by schnittke susanne elmark
Act One
As a punishment for not working hard enough, "I" is forced by the authorities to live with an idiot. He chooses Vova from a lunatic asylum. Vova is only capable of speaking a single word: "Ech".
Act Two
At first Vova behaves well but then he suddenly begins to make a nuisance of himself, including tearing up I's wife's copy of the works of Marcel Proust. I and his wife go to live in another room and Vova calms down. I's wife falls in love with Vova and becomes pregnant by him. Then Vova and I turn on the wife. Vova kills her and I becomes an idiot.