Los Angeles Theater Preview and Interviews: AN AMERICAN SOLDIER'S TALE / A FIDDLER'S TALE (Long Beach Opera)
GET SOME TALE In 1918, Igor Stravinsky and Swiss writer Ferdinand Ramuz wrote L’Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) a short theatrical work meant to be "read, played, and danced” while accompanied by a septet. Based on a Russian folk tale, the libretto relates the parable of a soldier who trades his fiddle to the […]