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This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative strategies: In each of the eleven segments of this "electronic opera", different effects are…

DirectorWoody Vasulka
WritersErnest Gusella·Robert Ashley

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Cast · Directed by Woody Vasulka

RARobert Ashley
Robert Ashley
Hector Berlioz
EGErnest Gusella
Ernest Gusella
Niccolo Paganini
CC
Cosimo Corsano
The Mortician
BH
Ben Harris
Paganini's Son
AH
Andrea Harris
The Voice
DO
David Ossman
The Narrator

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