He had just turned 37. A leg had been amputated. He had been running guns for an Ethiopian king. He was France's great poet.		Seasons in Hell A Life of Rimbaud Libretto Exerpts Ordering Reviews Seasons In Hell: The Opera Harold Blumenfeld
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SEASONS IN HELL traces the life of France's astonishing poet-prodigy Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). As a teenager, his writings brought about a revolution in French letters. In the Wake of his Shooting by a drunken and suicidal Paul Verlaine, his fellow poete maudit, Rimbaud renounced all he had achieved and went forth to seek his fortune in Ethiopia. his trkes aggravated a cancerous tumor in his right knee, requiring amputation. Six agonizing months later, he died -- at age 37, one hundred hears following the death of Motzart, his only equal in precocious genius. Harold Blumenfeld, Music Charles Kondek, Libretto