Chester Kallman
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Chester Simon Kallman (1921 – January 18, 1975) was an American poet, librettist, and translator best known for his work with W.H.Auden on opera librettos for Igor Stravinsky and other composers.
Life
Kallman was born in Brooklyn of Ashkenazi Jewish originstry. He earned his B.A. He received his M.A. from Brooklyn College and earned his M.A. At the University of Michigan, he was a student at the University of Michigan. Storm at Castelfranco (1956), Absent and Present (1963), and The Sense of Occasion (1971). He spent the majority of his adult life in New York, Italy, from 1948 to 1957, and in Austria from 1958 to 1974.
He migrated from New York to Athens, Greece, in 1963. He died as a result of a heart attack on January 18, 1975, eleven days after his 54th birthday. Kallman had been the beneficiary of Auden's estate in the entirety but died intestate, resulting in the inheritance being passed on by his next-of-kin, Edward Kallman (1892–1986), a New York dentist in his eighties.
Career
Kallman conceived the libretto for Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress (1951) together with his lifelong friend (and sometime lover) W. H. Auden. Hans Werner Henze, Elegy for Young Lovers (1961) and The Bassarids (1966), as well as the libretto of Love's Labour's Lost (based on Shakespeare's play) for Nicolas Nabokov (1973). In addition, they wrote the libretto "Delia, or A Masque of Night" (1953), which was intended for Stravinsky but not set to music. They were hired to write the lyrics for Man of La Mancha, but Kallman did not participate in the project, and the producers decided against using Auden's contributions.
Kallman was the sole author of The Tuscan Players' libretto for Carlos Chávez (1953), who first appeared in 1957 as Panfilo and Lauretta).
He and Auden worked on a number of libretto translations, including The Magic Flute (1956) and Don Giovanni (1961). Falstaff (1954), Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea (1954) and several other operas were also translated by Kallman.