Jocelyn tremulously wrote:
>I understand the librettist committed suicide a year
>after the opening. Very dark and forboding information!!
Indeed, although I wouldn't presume a causal relationship. ; ) Anne
Sexton was a poet and quite a troubled woman. If you're interested in
preparing and don't yet have access to the score, I recommend reading her
poetry -- start maybe with "The Awful Rowing toward God," or the Furies
poems. She was an incredible communicator.
Naomi Gurt Lind
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