LIBRETTO

"Jimmy -shizofrenik"

Rock opera in two acts

(Based on the novel by Theodore Dreiser's "American Tragedy")

Author: Sergey E. Voronin

Characters:

Jimmy - tenor

The doctor - a psychiatrist - tenor

Jimmy's mother - the soprano

Robert - soprano

Police - baritone

Nicole – soprano

                                          Overture[1]

                                      Act I

                                  Scene One-prologue

    Hospital ward psychiatric hospital. In the corner of the room sits a young man of 16 years. He sits limply hanging hands. His eyes - totally immobile and rests against the wall. The boy is afraid of corners. The corners of the room cut in half his brain literally. He tries to glue pieces virtual room so that there was no corners. But this is impossible by definition. The circular room, perhaps, would be the only solution to this complex geometrical problem. But there are no rooms in the world. A young man named Jimmy was confused in the maze of his bifurcated consciousness. Footy look young schizophrenic, however, sometimes illuminated by flashes of a short illumination of the brain of the patient, trying, somehow, to connect the space of the imaginary and real worlds. This paradox in Geometry and stereometry severe psychiatric illness, as it turns out, is insoluble in principle.

    In the psychiatric hospital staffroom room includes young doctor - a psychiatrist and a middle-aged woman. It - Jimmy's mother Marlene. Sounds duo of mother and doctor. The duo doctor convinces the woman that her son, though sick, but is a very gifted boy. Woman doctor asks: "What will happen next?" To which the doctor replies, "Marlene! This is - God knows! We do not know about this disease absolutely nothing! We - just doctors! Today we know for sure only one thing, that the genius and schizophrenia - are eternal and constant companions in our gross material world! But your boy, to my regret, forever doomed to live in these two realities it! "[2]

                                        Scene Two

   It took 2 years and Jimmy entered the College of Law. The disease is not much disturb him lately - she seemed to be asleep forever and left, finally, our student alone. Only the voice alarm voice suddenly rang out sometimes in the dead of night his rented apartment. But Jimmy was accustomed to these voices and almost did not pay attention to them.[3]

                                          Part Three

     Student party in college. Young people broke into pairs and dance the waltz. Jimmy dancing with a charming girl named Robert.[4]

     Robert was from the small town of Punxsutawney Pennsylvania. This - the same town where traditionally in America February 2 notes an exotic holiday on the eve of the spring called "Groundhog Day." Young people immediately fell in love. Literally from the first sight.

    However, Robert was from a very devout Catholic family, so the closeness they have happened only a month after they met. One morning they woke up in the same bed after a torrid night of love. Jimmy realized that he was - absolutely happy now; at this moment, at this moment! He kissed her gently on the lips, and Robert asked her to marry him. Robert was just in seventh heaven. "Of course yes!"[5]

                                     Picture fourth

   As often happens always, in the love of two people happiness third force intervenes suddenly. This third force was Nicole. Nicole - a very spoiled girl from a bourgeois family, with a very effective appearance brunette - vamp. She immediately drew attention to Jimmy, and, spurred by women's self-esteem, has the task - at any cost to repel Jimmy from Roberta.[6]

     Nicole is taking active steps to seduce Jimmy and, soon, it is quite possible! In the hotel room between Nicole and Jimmy happened that Robert had once seen in hеr nightmare.[7]

                                 ACT II

                                      Scene One

      Caught in the middle of a love triangle, Jimmy suddenly felt that the disease comes back to him again. He spent hours lying alone in a dark room and a morbid curiosity of his damaged mind watching the deformed and distorted space around it. It was awful, and, at the same time, very excited his curiosity - to what extent the chaos of this world can fall apart?[8]

      One evening, for him to a safe place went to Robert and tragic voice announced that she was pregnant by him. Jimmy was just horrified by this message. Split personality in real life, crazy throwing pregnant between Robert and Nicole soon brought the sick brain Jimmy to this schizophrenic split personality. On the same evening, between Robert and Jimmy had a very difficult conversation, which, fortunately for them, ended the proximity of hot and declarations of love.[9]

                                            Scene Two

    Waking up early in the morning, Jimmy realized that there is only one single way to resolve this problem of a love triangle. Yes! He has to kill Robert. Voters strongly advised him to do so, to make it look like an accident. The place of the alleged crime, Jimmy without hesitation chose the city park "Coney Island." He invited Robert for a walk in the park, where he offered her a ride on a boat in a local pond. Robert gladly accepted.[10]

    In a pond he could not decide to murder. Then, seizing the moment, he hit Robert on the camera head. The boat capsized. The girl with a long cry fell into the water. Jimmy was with Roberta at that moment. He knew that she did not know how to swim. However, he was a cold-blooded boa quietly watched as Robert slowly but surely goes under the water, not even trying to help his former lover.

    He ran out of the park "Coney Island", fled in panic, like a criminal running from the scene of the murder, leaving many evidences of his crime. Police quickly took the trail Jimmy. And soon came for him.

                                 Painting third (epilogue)

   Hospital ward psychiatric hospital. In the corner of the room sits a young man of 20 years. He sits limply hanging hands. His eyes - totally immobile and rests against the wall. The boy is afraid of corners. The corners of the room cut in half his brain literally. He tries to glue