Robert Ashley (1930-2014)

Improvement (Don Leaves Linda) (1985)

opera for solo voice, choir, orchestra and electronics

electronic work
stage work

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1985
    • Cycle: NOW ELEANOR'S IDEA
    • Libretto (details, author):

      Robert Ashley

Premiere information

Information on the electronics
Electronic device: dispositif électronique non spécifié

Table of contents

Act I

  • The Argument (Prelude)
  • Sunset At The Turnoff
  • The Airline Ticket Counter
  • The Correspondences Text
  • The Ride To Town
  • The Airline Ticket Counter
  • The Indifference Text
  • Back Home...
  • Mr. George Payne
  • The Contents Of Her Purse
  • Supper With Mr. Payne'S Mother
  • Golf Left-Handed
  • A Moment (Very Late)...

Act II

  • The Big City
  • Tarzan
  • The Big City
  • The Doctor
  • The Offering of Images
  • The Good Life
  • Trouble
  • The Good Life
  • Trouble
  • The Good Life
  • A Place in the Country
  • Happiness, Prosperity and Forgetfulness
  • The Bridge Game
  • North (Berlin A Tango)
  • East (River Rouge)
  • South (Vampo dei Fiori, Rome)
  • West (Atlantic)