PETER IBBETSON

Composer: DEEMS TAYLOR Book by composer and CoN sTANCE COLLIER, after her play version of Du Maurier’s novel First performance: Metropolitan Opera House, New York, February 7, 1931 3 acts. Younc PETER IS BETS ON, nephew and ward of pompous Colonel Ibbetson, meets Mary, Duche of Towers, at a London gathering. He doesn’t realise that she is the sweetheart of his youth. Peter angers his uncle and leaves to visit France where he spent his childhood, He falls asleep at an inn and dreams of a quarrei between his mother and his uncle. He awakens to find Mary at the inn. They recognise each other and find they are still in love. Mary tells him they must net meet again. Peter returns to London and, in a heated dispute with his uncle, kills him. Sentenced to life imprisonment he is consoled by a me age from Mary that they will always be together in their dreams. Forty years later Peter, an old man, hears of Mary’s death and sees her in a dream beckoning to him. He dies to meet her in Eternity.