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		<title>Brett at 14:23, 23 February 2020</title>
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|Date=14/26 November 1892&lt;br /&gt;
|To=[[Bernhard Pollini]]&lt;br /&gt;
|Place=[[Saint Petersburg]]&lt;br /&gt;
|Language=French&lt;br /&gt;
|Autograph=[[New York]] (New York, USA): {{US-NYpm}} (Morgan coll. MA 2717)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Text and Translation==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Lettertext&lt;br /&gt;
|Language=French&lt;br /&gt;
|Translator=Brett Langston&lt;br /&gt;
|Original text={{right|14 Novembre 1892, S[ain]t Petersbourg&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Grand-Hôtel, Petite Morskaia}}&lt;br /&gt;
Mon bien cher et excellent ami! Vous ne sauriez croire combien Votre bonne lettre m&amp;#039;a fait plaisir, — car ne recevant de Vous aucune nouvelle, j&amp;#039;avais cru un moment que Vous aviez renoncé à monter «&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Iolanthe&amp;#039;&amp;#039;» sur Votre Théâtre. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Certainement&amp;#039;&amp;#039; je viendrai pour les répétitions et le premier spectacle. J&amp;#039;accepte aussi avec le plus grand plaisir l&amp;#039;invitation de &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Schwerin&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Maintenant voici quelques mots sur une &amp;#039;&amp;#039;coupure&amp;#039;&amp;#039; que nous avons fait ici dans «&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Iolanthe&amp;#039;&amp;#039;», qu&amp;#039;on étudie en ce moment au Théâtre Impérial. Il y a après l&amp;#039;arrivée de &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Almérik&amp;#039;&amp;#039; une longue scène où &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Bertrand&amp;#039;&amp;#039; lui raconte comment et pourquoi la fille du &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Roi René&amp;#039;&amp;#039; vit isolée. Cette scène est un peu longue et ennuyeuse et j&amp;#039;ai fait {{und2|une grande coupure}} que Vous comprendrez mieux quand Vous aurez parcouru le &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Clavierauszug&amp;#039;&amp;#039; russe que je Vous envoie en même temps que cette lettre. Mais, à cause de la coupure il faudra un tout petit peu changer les paroles dans le recitatif du Roi, — j&amp;#039;indiquerai dans quel endroit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mon cher ami, ne pourriez Vous pas envoyer Votre régisseur en chef ou son adjoint à Petersbourg pour assister à la premiere de «&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Iolanthe&amp;#039;&amp;#039;» ici? Ce serait bien utile pour la mise en scène de &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Hambourg&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. {{und2|Je prends sur moi très volontiers les frais du voyage}}. Veuillez me donner un mot de réponse. Je resterai ici jusqu&amp;#039;à la premiere {{sic|représantation|représentation}}, qui aura lieu vers le 7/19 Décembre. Je Vous télegraphierai le jour, quand il sera fixé.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bien à Vous,&lt;br /&gt;
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
|Translated text={{right|14 November 1892, [[Saint Petersburg]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Grand-Hôtel, Little Morskaya}}&lt;br /&gt;
My very dear and good friend! You cannot imagine how happy your kind letter &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note1&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; has made me — because since I had not received any further word from you, I thought for a moment that you had abandoned the staging of &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Iolanta]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot; in your theatre. I shall &amp;#039;&amp;#039;certainly&amp;#039;&amp;#039; come for the rehearsals and the first production. I also accept with great pleasure the invitation to &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Schwerin&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Now here are a few words during the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;breaks&amp;#039;&amp;#039; we are having in &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Iolanta]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot;, which is currently in rehearsal here at the Imperial Theatre. After the arrival of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Almerik&amp;#039;&amp;#039; there is a long scene where &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Bertrand&amp;#039;&amp;#039; explains to him how and why &amp;#039;&amp;#039;King René&amp;#039;&amp;#039;{{&amp;#039;}}s daughter lives in isolation. This scene is somewhat long and tedious, and I made {{und2|a large cut}} that you will better understand once you have studied the Russian &amp;#039;&amp;#039;vocal-piano reduction&amp;#039;&amp;#039; that I am sending you together with this letter. Because the cut will require a slight change to the words of the King&amp;#039;s recitatives, I shall mark where this occurs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My dear friend, could you not send your principal director or his deputy to attend the premiere &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Iolanta]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot; here? This would be most useful for the staging in &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Hamburg]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. {{und2|I would very gladly take on the travel expenses myself}}. Please send me a word in reply. I will be staying here until the first performance, which will take place around 7/19 December &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note2&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;. I will telegraph you the date, when it has been settled &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note3&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Yours ever,&lt;br /&gt;
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
==Notes and References==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[[Bernhard Pollini]]&amp;#039;s letter to Tchaikovsky has not survived.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;The premiere of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Iolanta]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; took place at the Mariinsky Theatre in [[Saint Petersburg]] on 6/18 December 1892.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Neither [[Pollini]]&amp;#039;s reply nor Tchaikovsky&amp;#039;s telegram have survived, but &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Iolanta]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; was staged at the [[Hamburg]] Opera Theatre on 23 December 1892/4 January 1893, in the composer&amp;#039;s absence.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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