Lolita
A narrator comments on linked scenes tracing Humbert Humbert’s exploitation of Dolores Haze and their travels across America. Albee’s adaptation places the telling of their story alongside the events being portrayed.
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A narrator comments on linked scenes tracing Humbert Humbert’s exploitation of Dolores Haze and their travels across America. Albee’s adaptation places the telling of their story alongside the events being portrayed.
The opera opens with Humbert Humbert facing a court after his relationship with Lolita. He marries her mother to gain access to the girl, then travels with Lolita after her mother dies. Lolita later escapes his control and becomes involved with filmmaker Quilty; Humbert kills Quilty and is sentenced to death.
A 70-minute ballet adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel, created by Davide Bombana with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, György Ligeti, Alfred Schnittke, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
In an unnamed future European country, masked king Morn's rule brings peace. He falls in love with Midia, wife of revolutionary Ganus; when Ganus returns from a labor camp and challenges Morn to a card-settled duel, Morn loses, refuses to kill himself, and flees with Midia as revolutionaries replace the monarchy with dictatorship.
In an unnamed country, inventor Salvator Waltz claims to wield a weapon capable of destroying cities and seizes power, but the imagined conquest collapses when the supposed machine proves unreal and he is returned to rejection and madness.
A narrator comments on linked scenes tracing Humbert Humbert’s exploitation of Dolores Haze and their travels across America. Albee’s adaptation places the telling of their story alongside the events being portrayed.
The opera opens with Humbert Humbert facing a court after his relationship with Lolita. He marries her mother to gain access to the girl, then travels with Lolita after her mother dies. Lolita later escapes his control and becomes involved with filmmaker Quilty; Humbert kills Quilty and is sentenced to death.
A 70-minute ballet adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel, created by Davide Bombana with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, György Ligeti, Alfred Schnittke, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
In an unnamed future European country, masked king Morn's rule brings peace. He falls in love with Midia, wife of revolutionary Ganus; when Ganus returns from a labor camp and challenges Morn to a card-settled duel, Morn loses, refuses to kill himself, and flees with Midia as revolutionaries replace the monarchy with dictatorship.
In an unnamed country, inventor Salvator Waltz claims to wield a weapon capable of destroying cities and seizes power, but the imagined conquest collapses when the supposed machine proves unreal and he is returned to rejection and madness.