Anna Karenina

An opera in two acts by David Carlson

Libretto by Colin Graham after the novel by Leo Tolstoy

CD 1

DAVID CARLSON b. 1952

Act I

1

Prologue: The Station, Moscow. Winter, 1874.

3:32

2

1

Scene 1: A sitting room in Stiva's house. That day.

7:52

3

Scene 2: A ball at Princess Betsy Tverskoya's house.

12:15

4

Scene 3: Karenin's house, St Petersburg. That night.

6:10

5

2

Scene 1: Stiva's house. A few days later.

1:27

6

Scene 2: Lenin's house in the country

8:53

7

Scene 3: Karenin's country house outside St Petersburg. Spring

9:54

8

3

Scene 1: A box at the races. Tsarskow Selo. That afternoon

10:49

9

Scene 2: Karenin's study, some days later. Night

11:15

CD 2

Act II

1

4

Scene 1: The Admiralty Gardens, St Petersburg. Early autumn

7:31

2

Scene 2: A supper party at the Oblonsky's.

6:40

3

Scene 3: Anna's bedroom, that night.

6:40

4

Interlude

1:16

5

5

Scene 1: Levin's house. Six month's later.

2:45

6

Scene 2: Anna, writing.

4:37

7

Scene 3: Seriosha's bedroom. Early morning on his birthday

4:30

8

Interlude

0:45

9

6

Scene 1: Anna's apartments at an hotel. That evening.

18:43

10

Scene 2: The Station Platform.

7:14

11

Scene 3: (Epilogue) The garden of Levin's country estate. Months later.

6:47

CD 2 TT:

67:35

Stewart Robertson