Full Description
In 2009, the Glyndebourne Festival of Opera reaches its 75th year. In commemoration of this event, Jeanette Winterson has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors writing today to pen stories inspired by opera. A foreword from Ralph Fiennes and an introduction by Jeanette Winterson are followed by: Alexander McCall Smith on Cosi Fan Tutte; Ali Smith on Fidelio; Andrew Motion on Peter Grimes; Andrew O'Hagan on Eugene Onegin; Ann Enright on Rusalka;; Colm Toibin on Pearl Fishers; Jackie Kay on The Makropulos Case; Joanna Trollope on L'Elisir d'Amore; John Mortimer on Cosi Fan Tutte; Julie Myerson on The Crowning of Poppaea; Kate Atkinson on La Traviata; Kate Mosse on Pelleas et Melisande; Lynne Truss on The Turn of the Screw; Marina Warner on Dido and Aeneas; Posy Simmonds double page of 'Glyndebourne Midsummer Night'; Ruth Rendell on Theodora; Sebastian Barry on Natoma; Toby Litt on Don Giovanni.
Contents
Introduction - Jeanette Winterson. First Lady of Song - Jackie Kay. Fidelio and Bess - Ali Smith. Freedom - Sebastian Barry. To Die For - Kate Atkinson. The Growler - Julie Myerson. The Ghost - Toby Litt. Nemo - Joanna Trollope. The Pearl Fishers - Colm Toibin. Key Note - Anne Enright. First Snow - Andrew O'Hagan. Midsummer Night at Glyndebourne - Posy Simmonds. Goldrush Girl - Jeanette Winterson. The Martyr - Ruth Rendell. String and Air - Lynne Truss. The Empty Seat - Paul Bailey. My Lovely Countess - Antonia Fraser. La Fille de Melisande - Kate Mosse. Now the Great Bear... - Andrew Motion. Forget My Fate - Marina Warner. The Albanians - Alexander McCall Smith. Notes on the Operas - Margaret Reynolds. About Glyndebourne. Notes on the Contributors.
