Circe (Egk)

Opera by Werner Egk

Circe

Opera by Werner Egk
Librettist| Egk
Language| German

Circe is a 1945 opera by Werner Egk after Pedro Calderón de la Barca, premiered 1948. Egk reworked it as an opera semibuffa as 17 Tage und 4 Minuten, 1966.[1]

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1. ^ The Oxford Dictionary of Music 0199578540 ed. Michael Kennedy, Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Joyce Kennedy-2013 p.256 "operas: Columbus (1933 radio, 1942 stage); Die Zaubergeige (1935, rev. 1954); *Peer Gynt (1938); Circe (1945, rev. 1966 as 17 Tage und 4 Minuten); *Irische Legende (after Yeats, 1955, rev. 1970); Der Revisor (after Gogol's The *Government Inspector, 1957); Die Verlobung in San Domingo (1963). "

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Werner Egk

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* Columbus (1933, 1942)
* Die Zaubergeige (1935, 1954)
* Peer Gynt (1938)
* Circe (1945, 17 Tage und 4 Minuten 1966)
* Irische Legende (1955, 1975)
* Der Revisor (1957)
* Die Verlobung in San Domingo (1963)

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