Marina Galperina
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Night Watch the Opera... This Is Happening

Sergey Lukyanenko, author of the Night Watch novel tetralogy, is writing a libretto based on the saga. Night Watch the Opera will premiere in Vienna and it's going to be "spectacular." Into the Gloo-oo-OO-oom...

Lukyanenko was offered to write a libretto by the Vienna State Opera and an unnamed Finish producer and accepted, according to his personal LiveJournal and RIA Novosti. He'll be off to Finland to meet an unnamed young composer soon and promises details in September.

It's impossible and unnecessary to adapt the entire novel, so a central episode from Night Watch will be selected. Lukyanenko stated that "the important thing is for the selected episode to contain everything to ensure success - a love story, adventure, treachery, and a tragedy." What will it be? Will Olga-owl burst into humanity with an explosion of goo and feathers? Will there vortexes of damnation and the Gloom and all that?

In his LiveJournal, Lukyanenko titled that particular entry as "Aria of Gesar and Zabulon." Hint hint.

[Lukyanenko's LiveJournal]
[Lenta.ru]


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