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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.
Carl Heinrich Maria Orff was born in Munich on 10 July 1895, the son of Paula Orff (née Köstler, 1872–1960) and Heinrich Orff (1869–1949). His family was Bavarian and was active in the Imperial German Army; his father was an army officer with strong musical interests, and his mother was a trained pianist.
Died in a solitary confinement cell at Changi Prison's death row section. Found guilty in 1985 of murdering a landlady and her two children, and sentenced to hang. His accomplice Lim Beng Hai, also on death row, was put to death five months later on 5 October 1990 Graham Young: 1990-08-01 United Kingdom: Heart attack Poisoner Died in Parkhurst ...
Composer — He died in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, where he had moved to direct the music for the film El capitán aventurero based on his opera Don Gil de Alcalá . He was supposedly buried in Mexico City. [178] Johann Stamitz: 1757 Composer He is believed to have been buried in the old Katholischen Friedhof in Mannheim, Germany.
1937: Louis Vierne, a French organist and composer, died while performing his 1,750th organ recital on 2 June 1937, at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. [10] 1938: On April Fools Day 1938, actor Joseph Greenwald died during a West Coast premiere performance of Golden Boy at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, CA. Greenwald collapsed and ...
Antigone, opera by Arthur Honegger, premiered on December 28, 1927, at Théâtre de la Monnaie in Bruxelles. Antigonae , opera by Carl Orff , a Literaturoper , which uses Friedrich Hölderlin's translation of Sophokles' drama (1805), premiered on August 8, 1949, at the Felsenreitschule in the context of Salzburg Festival .
Antigonae (Salzburg 1949), opera by Carl Orff (1895–1982) Antigone (1944), French adaptation of Sophocles's play by Jean Anouilh (1910–1987) performed during the Nazi occupation of Paris " Antigone-Legend ", for soprano and piano (text by Bertolt Brecht ), by Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021) and presented as a play in two slightly different ...
Antigone is an opera (tragédie musicale) in three acts by Arthur Honegger to a French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. Honegger composed the opera between 1924 and 1927. It premiered on 28 December 1927 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie with sets designed by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel. [1] [2]