![]() She recalls a much earlier conversation with her old friend, Natalya, about the character of Amina in Bellini’s La Sonnambula. For instance, Lilliet notices, after the Siege of Paris, that though her figure has returned, her complexion’s color had not she was completely pale. “The Queen of the Night” blurs the lines between reality and art and the boundaries of narration. She notes: “Lilliet Berne was in every way my greatest performance, but almost no one knew this to be true.” The novel somehow tells her story, one she had hoped to escape. Lilliet notes that all singers want a role written for them: “This was your only immortality.” But Lilliet would be immortalizing not a character but a life: her life. has your fate in his hands.” This stranger is a novelist who would like to turn his novel into an opera and would like her to be the opera’s star. ![]() ![]() At the opening of Alexander Chee’s remarkable new novel, “The Queen of the Night,” soprano Lilliet Berne tells us: “When it began, it began as opera would begin, in a palace, at a ball, in an encounter with a stranger who. ![]()
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