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Antigone, Op. 55, MWV M 12, is a suite of incidental music written in 1841 by Felix Mendelssohn to accompany the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles, staged by Ludwig Tieck.The text is based on Johann Jakob Christian Donner's German translation of the text, with additional assistance from August Böckh.
Antigone at the Barbican was a 2015 filmed-for-TV version of a production at the Barbican directed by Ivo van Hove; the translation was by Anne Carson and the film starred Juliette Binoche as Antigone and Patrick O'Kane as Kreon. Other TV adaptations of Antigone have starred Irene Worth (1949) and Dorothy Tutin (1959), both broadcast by the BBC.
Antigone (mythology), several characters in Greek mythology Antigone of Epirus (fl. 317–295 BC), daughter of Berenice I of Egypt and wife of Pyrrhus of Epirus; Antigone Foster, Australian singer and songwriter based in the UK, known professionally as Antigone
I cannot say I thought her trajectory would lead to her playing Sophocles’ Antigone in a Greek ... Review: ‘Antigone’ at Court Theatre has a cast ready to take this play in new directions ...
In Greek mythology, Antigone (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη, romanized: Antigónē) is a Theban princess and a character in several ancient Greek tragedies.
Antigonae (Antigone), written by Carl Orff, was first presented on 9 August 1949 under the direction of Ferenc Fricsay in the Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, Austria, as part of the Salzburg Festival. Antigonae is in Orff's words a "musical setting" for the Greek tragedy of the same name by Sophocles. However, it functions as an opera.
In his First Symphony, the Sinfonía de Antígona (1933), Carlos Chávez reworked incidental music he had composed in 1932 for a production of Sophocles' Antigone in the adaptation by Jean Cocteau. In this symphony Chávez made extensive use of the Greek paeonic (or cretic) meter, notated in 5 8 time in the score. [79]
In Greek mythology, Antigona or Antigone (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη meaning 'worthy of one's parents' or 'in place of one's parents') was the name of the following figures: Antigone, daughter of Oedipus. Antigone, daughter of Eurytion and first wife of Peleus. [1] Antigone, daughter of Laomedon. [2]