Summer and Smoke, Opera in two acts: libretto

(New York): Belwin-Mills, (1972).

Price: $200.00

Softcover. Libretto: vi, 66 pp.; 27 cm. Fine in printed wrappers. A scarce copy of Lanford Wilson's libretto to Lee Hoiby's most famous opera, based on the play by Tennessee Williams. It premiered in June, 1971 by the St. Paul Opera in Minnesota.

Item #337482

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Item #337482 Summer and Smoke, Opera in two acts: libretto. Lanford WILSON, Lee Hoiby, Tennessee Williams, libretto, music.

Tennessee Williams
birth name: Thomas Lanier Williams
born: 3/26/1911
died: 2/25/1983
nationality: USA

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American dramatist whose plays reveal a world of human frustration in which sex and violence often underlie a pervasive atmosphere of romantic gentility. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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