images of merchants
Geoffrey Chew
uhwm006 at SUN.RHUL.AC.UK
Thu Sep 16 10:18:43 UTC 2004
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, elenka wrote:
> Well, Alexandr Ostrovsky's plays such as "Groza", "Volki i ovtsy",
> "Bespridannitsa" (the last one was made into a popular melodrama
> "Zhestokii romans" by El'dar Riazanov) are full of memorable images of
> merchants and of "delovye liudi" in general.
And, as a follow-up to my last posting, "Groza" also has the advantage of
a possible comparison with Janacek's operatic reworking of it in Czech in
"Kat'a Kabanova".
Best wishes
Geoffrey Chew
Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
Internet: chew at sun.rhul.ac.uk
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