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Letters of a Love Betrayed, 2008, William Crozier (1930-2011)

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Letters of a Love Betrayed' is an opera by Eleanor Alberga based on a short story by Isabel Allende.

In 2008, the artistic director of Music Theatre Wales (one of Europe's leading contemporary opera companies), Michael McCarthy, aware of William Crozier’s lifelong interest in colour, the landscape and Hispanic culture, invited him to create a painting to use in publicity for a new opera then in development ‘Letters of a Love Betrayed’. The opera was based on the novel Eva Luna by the notable Chilean author, Isabel Allende and had its world premiere at the Royal Opera House in 2009.
Crozier was a passionate opera-lover and he leapt at the opportunity. He wrote to McCarthy at the time:
“This is the first picture I have ever painted that does not have its origin in something I have seen. The image is borrowed from a similar scorching landscape I knew when I lived in the mountains of Andalusia. I was also led by the scenario of the opera and the imaginary landscapes of Allende and other Latin American novelists and poets, Marquez and Neruda chief among them. . . I have enjoyed working on this painting and my pleasure will be complete when I hear the music which I could only envisage in my mind’s eye.”
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@Odetteswann .... talking way too much is fine with me!!! Have a good night.

Odetteswann

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Now you know I talk way too much!! We could have been reading!

Whoa .... it has been decades since I read anything by James Joyce. Unfortunately, I read Ulysses and also Mrs Dalloway when I was very young and most of it probably went way way over my head at the time. Maybe I should read it again instead of murder mysteries …. I do like Ken Follett, David Balducci, Harlen Coben, Michael Connelly …. the list goes on and on. I read in spurts. I will read 10 or more books in a month for awhile and then I’ll stop. I’m in a non-reading phase right now …. doing puzzles and watching more tv these days. I think it’s called being lazy.

Odetteswann

Yes so interesting! Allende too! And Andalusia - like Molly Bloom said in Ulysses “…and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls ...”

Love the story behind the pictures. Thank you Odette.

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