It includes a fine portrait and evaluation of French writer Jacques Cazotte, author of The devil in love, who inspired E. T. A. Hoffmann and Charles Nodier, and who was unjustly guillotined during the French revolution in his 70s.
The Devil in Love (Le Diable amoureux or Vlyublyonny dyavol) is an opera in three acts (1975-1989); libretto by Vladimir Khachaturov after Jacques Cazotte