Life With an Idiot

Album by Alfred Garyevich Schnittke & Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest & Mstislav Rostropovich & Dale Duesing & Teresa Ringholz & Howard Haskin

First released: 1992

Opera Classical

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Disc 1

1.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Prologue. "Life with an idiot is full of surprises" (Chorus, I, Wife)
1:45
2.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "My friends congratulated me on my idiot" (I, Chorus, Wife)
1:47
3.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "I had been full of doubts and anxieties that winter" (I, Chorus, Wife)
2:26
4.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "Everybody laughed" (Chorus, Wife, I)
2:48
5.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "I pictured to myself a crafty and staid wise old man" (I, Chorus)
1:43
6.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "Well look what's happened - I've belched" (I, Wife, Chorus)
1:50
7.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "Sometimes I mix up my dead wives" (I, Wife, Chorus, Vova)
3:52
8.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "I've swapped a birdie for a pizza!" (Chorus, I, Wife, Vova)
2:50
9.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. Tango (Intermezzo)
2:31
10.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. "I said later that if I had gone" (Wife, I, Guard, Chorus)
6:27
11.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. "Look: my former fellow students" (I, Chorus, Guard)
3:12
12.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. "I got down to searching for the holy simpleton" (I, Lad, Guard, Chorus, Wife)
6:51
13.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. "Ekh!" (Vova, I, Chorus, Guard)
5:31
14.
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. Intermezzo (Wife, I, Vova)
1:35

Disc 2

2.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "In the beginning Vova was very reserved" (I, Vova, Chorus)
5:45
3.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "In the evenings, to prevent Vova suffering from insomnia" (I, Chorus)
1:34
4.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "Once, on returning home, I chanced upon the following scene" (I, Chorus, Vova)
1:37
5.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "A few days later Vova started tearing up the books" (I, Wife, Vova, Marcel Proust, Chorus)
3:24
6.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "Suddenly, one fine day, he dumped a whole pile in the middle of the room" (I, Wife)
2:11
7.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "Ekh!" (Vova, Chorus, I, Wife)
4:31
8.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. Intermezzo
1:11
9.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Vova has cleaned up his act a lot" (Wife, I, Chorus, Vova, Marcel Proust)
5:49
10.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Don't offend him. Don't traumatise Vova" (Wife, I, Chorus)
1:53
11.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Life with an idiot is full of surprises!" (Wife, I, Chorus)
2:59
12.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "I was intrigued as to which proclivities of Vova my wife bent over backwards to meet" (I, Wife, Chorus)
3:50
13.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Ekh!" (Vova, Chorus, I, Wife)
5:53
14.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Well, and now, cock-sucking reader, whoever you are" (I, Chorus, Vova)
3:11
15.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "They made their home in the second room" (Marcel Proust, Wife, I, Vova)
2:17
16.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "He had a brand-new and perfectly tolerable wife" (Wife, Marcel Proust, I, Vova)
2:47
17.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "We beat her up, beat her up!" (Chorus, Vova, I, Wife)
3:26
18.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Suddenly, the wife declares: 'Vova! Either him...'" (Chorus, Wife, I, Vova)
4:26
19.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "I love you. Love!" (Wife, Chorus, Marcel Proust, I, Vova)
2:26
20.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "I am Renoir" (Chorus, I)
1:56
21.
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "The guard greeted me like I was one of the family" (I, Vova, Chorus, Wife, Marcel Proust)
7:01