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...with Nadia "a lot of people thought of the necessity of writing American works" that would be accessible and relevant to American audiences. Along these lines, a friend suggested that he write an opera based upon Ethan Frome--Edith Wharton's tragic account of forbidden love set in frigid Starkfield, Mass. Allanbrook wrote the opera in Naples in 1951 on the continuation of a Fulbright scholarship that allowed him to go to the opera at Santo Carlo every weekend. A friend he met at Harvard, John Hart '48 (who would later go on to be a successful biochemist and novelist...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ETHAN FROME | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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