At first, everyone refuses, and then the town changes its mind. She has returned to her old town, now an economic wreck, and announces she will donate a fabulous sum of a billion – 500 million to the town and 500 million to the citizens– if they will kill Alfred, her former lover and now the owner of the city’s general store. He started with the 1956 play of the same name by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, about the ‘multi-millionairess’ Claire Zachanassian, who is about to take husband number 9, but wants revenge against the man who had left her pregnant when she was young. Gottfriend von Einem’s 1971 opera Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit of the Old Lady) pits money against morals. Anna Viemeister and Nickoli Strommer in Summer and Smoke, 2010 (Manhattan School of Music) (Photo by Richard Termine)
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