What Men Live By (opera)

What Men Live By (Czech: Čím lidé žijí) is an opera in one act by Bohuslav Martinů to an English^[1] libretto by the composer, based on Where Love Is, There God Is Also (1885) by Leo Tolstoy, though he chose to use the more universal title of a different Tolstoy story What Men Live By (1886). It was composed in 1951-1952 when the composer was living in the United States,^[1] and described by him as a 'pastoral-opera'.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Smaczny, Jan (1997) [1992]. "Martinů, Bohuslav". The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. 3. London: Macmillan Reference Limited. p. 238. ISBN 1-56159-228-5.
^ Allison, John. A Counterfeit Art? John Allison explores Tolstoy on the operatic stage. Opera, Vol 69 No. 9, September 2018, pp. 1060–1061.

[grove-1] Smaczny, Jan (1997) [1992]. "Martinů, Bohuslav". The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. 3. London: Macmillan Reference Limited. p. 238. ISBN 1-56159-228-5.

[Op92018-2] Allison, John. A Counterfeit Art? John Allison explores Tolstoy on the operatic stage. Opera, Vol 69 No. 9, September 2018, pp. 1060–1061.

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