Word: missolonghi
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...subject's tempestuous 36 years. Jack Larson's static libretto focuses in flashback on Byron's eccentric amatory escapades; the action is framed by the efforts of Byron's friends to win him a place in Poets' Corner. Of his more dramatic travels, battles and death at Missolonghi there is scarcely a word. Such a conception might have worked had Thomson been a composer of passion and power, had he been able to write music commensurate with Byron's words and deeds -- had he been, in short, the Verdi of Otello or the Berg of Wozzeck. But he wasn...