Peter Ibbetson is a novel by George du Maurier.[1] Published in 1891, it was Maurier's first novel.[2] Journalist John N. Raphael adapted the novel into the stage play Peter Ibbetson which premiered on July 23, 1915, at His Majesty's Theatre.[3] It later had a run on Broadway in 1917.[4] The novel was adapted into the 1921 silent film Forever,[5] and later into the Academy Award nominated film Peter Ibbetson (1935).[6] Composer Deems Taylor and actress Constance Collier adapted the novel into the opera Peter Ibbetson which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera on February 7, 1931.[7][8]
References
edit- ↑ Zieger, Susan (2017). "Du Maurier's Paris: Peter Ibbetson, Haussmann and Industrial Memory". In Cooke, Simon; Goldman, Paul (eds.). George Du Maurier: Illustrator, Author, Critic: Beyond Svengali. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317128670.
- ↑ McCann, Andrew (2014). "Dreaming true: aesthetic experience, psychiatric power, and the paranormal in George du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson". Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107064423.
- ↑ "Between Seasons". The New York Times. July 25, 1915. p. 70.
- ↑ "Peter Ibbetson at the Republic". The Brooklyn Citizen. April 19, 1917. p. 3.
- ↑ Soister, John T.; Nicolella, Henry; Joyce, Steve (2014). American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929. Vol. 2. McFarland & Company. p. 215. ISBN 9780786487905.
- ↑ Pomainville, Harold N. (2016). Henry Hathaway: The Lives of a Hollywood Director. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 63. ISBN 9781442269781.
- ↑ "Ibbetson Beautiful, But Lacks Melodies". New York Daily News. February 8, 1931. p. 60.
- ↑ "Taylor Opera, Peter Ibbetson, Is Heard in World Premiere". The Baltimore Sun. February 8, 1931. p. 12.
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