The moderate soprano

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Label

The moderate soprano

Statement of responsibility

David Hare

Creator

• Hare, David, 1947-

Subject

• Literature
• Opera -- England -- 20th century -- Drama
• Eastbourne (East Sussex, England) -- History -- 20th century -- Drama

Genre

• Drama

Language

eng

Summary

Nobody can doubt John Christie's passion or his formidable will: his wooing of his opera singer wife has been marked by a determination befitting a man who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos. Now, in 1934, this Etonian science teacher's admiration for the works of Wagner has led him to embark on an ambitious project: the construction of an Opera House on his estate in Sussex. But such is the scale of the enterprise that passion may not be enough. It's only when fog descends on Eastbourne, stranding a famous violinist overnight, that Christie hears word of a group of refugees for whom life in Germany is becoming impossible. Perhaps they can deliver Christie's vision of the sublime - assuming they're willing to cast his wife in the lead

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 822.9'2
• 822.92

Index

no index present

Literary form

dramas