Life with an Idiot

Life with an Idiot
Opera by Alfred Schnittke
Native title
Жизнь с идиотом
LibrettistViktor Erofeyev
Premiere
13 April 1992 (1992-04-13)
Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam

Life with an Idiot (Russian: Жизнь с идиотом, romanized: Zhizn s idiotom) is an opera by the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke to a Russian libretto by Viktor Erofeyev. Written as an allegory of oppression under the Soviet Union, the opera was first performed at Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, on 13 April 1992.

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