The inspiration for Germaine Taillefer's opera "For the Exiles" and for Michael Hjortsberg's novel "Fallen Angel," it tells the story of two lovers separated during the exile of their people. After much travail, the title protagonist, who has waited all her life to be reunited with her lover, Gabriel Lajeunesse, finds him dying during an epidemic in Philadelphia. FTP ident
The inspiration for Germaine Taillefer's opera "For the Exiles" and for Michael Hjortsberg's novel "Fallen Angel," it tells the story of two lovers separated during the exile of their people. After much travail, the title protagonist, who has waited all her life to be reunited with her lover, Gabriel Lajeunesse, finds him dying during an epidemic in Philadelphia. FTP identify this long poem set against the backdrop of the British expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia, a work of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The inspiration for Germaine Taillefer's opera "For the Exiles" and for Michael Hjortsberg's novel "Fallen Angel," it tells the story of two lovers separated during the exile of their people.
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