----- Original Message -----
From: Dmitri
Nabokov
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 8:46 PM
Subject: "DARKBLOOM" -- THE THWARTED LOLITA OPERA
DEAR
DON,
JOHN HARBISON'S
EXCUSES ABOUT HIS "THWARTED" LOLITA OPERA, ABOUT THE
UNACCEPTABLE SUBJECT MATTER, ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SETTING
LO'S COMIC ASPECTS, AND ABOUT THE VILE GOINGS-ON UNDER
ECCLESIASTIC ROBES ARE ALL A COP-OUT. IT IS HARBISON WHO IS INCOMPETENT. ONE
NEED LOOK -- AND LISTEN -- NO FURTHER THAN RODION SHCHEDRIN'S BRILLIANTLY
SUCCESSFUL LOLITA (COMPLETE WITH MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH'S
CONDUCTING, SUPERB STAGING AND A THOROUGHLY CONVINCING HEROINE), COMPOSED WITH
ROYAL PATRONAGE AND PERFORMED, ROYALLY AND REPEATEDLY, IN
STOCKHOLM.
DMITRI
NABOKOV