Love's Labour's Lost (opera)

Love's Labour's Lost is an opera by Nicolas Nabokov, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was first performed in Brussels in 1973.

The orchestration was by the German-American conductor Harold Byrns.^[1]

References

↑ Central Opera Service Bulletin

William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost

Characters	King Ferdinand of Navarre Lord Berowne Lord Longaville Lord Dumaine Princess of France Lady Rosaline Lady Maria Lady Katharine Boyet Don Adriano de Armado Moth Sir Nathaniel Holofernes Dull Costard Jaquenetta Marcadé

Adaptations	Love's Labour's Lost (opera; 1973) Love's Labour's Lost (TV; 1985) Love's Labour's Lost (film; 2000)

Related	Love's Labour's Won Honorificabilitudinitatibus Nine Worthies The School of Night Robert Tofte The Princess (poem; 1847)

W. H. Auden

Books of poetry	Poems (1930) The Orators (1932) On This Island (1936) Another Time (1940) The Double Man (1941) For the Time Being (1944) The Age of Anxiety (1947) Nones (1951) The Shield of Achilles (1955) Homage to Clio (1960) About the House (1966) City Without Walls (1969) Academic Graffiti (1971) Epistle to a Godson (1972) Thank You, Fog (1974)

Books containing prose and verse	Letters from Iceland (1937, with Louis MacNeice) Journey to a War (1939, with Christopher Isherwood)

Prose works and other books	The Enchafèd Flood (1950) The Dyer's Hand (1962) Secondary Worlds (1968) A Certain World (1970) Forewords and Afterwords (1973)

Individual poems	"The Orators" (1932) "Funeral Blues" (1936) "Spain" (1937) "Musée des Beaux Arts" (1938) "Refugee Blues" (1939) "September 1, 1939" (1939) "The Unknown Citizen" (1939) "Hymn to St. Cecilia" (1940) "For the Time Being" (1944) "The Sea and the Mirror" (1944) "The Age of Anxiety" (1947) "In Praise of Limestone" (1948) "The Platonic Blow" "Horae Canonicae" (1949–55) "The Shield of Achilles" (1955)

Plays	Paid on Both Sides (1928) The Dance of Death (1933) The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935) The Ascent of F6 (1936) On the Frontier (1938) The Play of Daniel (1958)

Libretti	Paul Bunyan (1941) The Rake's Progress (1951) Elegy for Young Lovers (1961) The Bassarids (1966) Love's Labour's Lost (1973)

Screenwriting	Night Mail (1936)

Family	George Augustus Auden (father) John Bicknell Auden (brother) Chester Kallman (companion)

Related	W. H. Auden bibliography

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