1) English-language opera 2) Fictional dentist 3) Opera based on novel
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McTeague is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple`s courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence and finally murder as the result of jealousy and avarice. The book was the basis for the films McTeague (1916) and Erich von Stroheim`s Greed (1924). It was also adapted as an .....
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[opera] McTeague is an American opera composed by William Bolcom with a libretto Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman. The opera is based on a novel of the same name by Frank Norris (written in 1895, published in 1899) which also served as the source material for the Erich von Stroheim film Greed (1924). The piece was written on commission fo...
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(from the article `Norris, Frank`) Norris`s first important novel, McTeague (1899), is a naturalist work set in San Francisco. It tells the story of a stupid and brutal dentist who ... Stroheim then signed a contract with Goldwyn Pictures and began work on a long-cherished project—an adaptation of Frank Norris`s grim, naturalistic ...
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