Electrification of the Soviet Union, The
Electrification of the Soviet Union, The. Opera in 2 acts by Nigel Osborne to lib. by Craig Raine based on B. Pasternak's novel The Last Summer and his poem Spectorsky. Comp. 1986–7. Prod. Glyndebourne 1987.
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