Lighthouse, The
Lighthouse, The. Chamber-opera in 1 act with prologue by Maxwell Davies to his own lib. Comp. 1979. Based on actual event in 1900 when the 3 keepers of the Flannan lighthouse in the Outer Hebrides unaccountably disappeared. F.p. Edinburgh 1980. London 1981, Boston 1983.
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