"In the days when I would have still contemplated composing an opera, my preferred source was Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of the Red Death. A marvelous story full of both symbolism and terror, it is only five pages long and would thus require padding instead of the usual brutal cutting of the story. I had contemplated some sort of melding of the Poe story with Leonid Andreyev's symbolist play The Black Maskers. However, I shall not be composing an opera, and so I decided to redirect my ideas into what might be considered an overture to an unwritten opera"--Program note from composer's website. Duration: about 8 min.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)864336633
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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