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Le Balcon

Composer
Eötvös Péter
Original / Hungarian title
Le Balcon
Foreign language / English title
Le Balcon
Subtitle
Opera en dix tableaux / Opera in ten pictures
Year of composition
2002
Type
Opera
Instrumentation
S., Ms., A., T., 3 Bar., B.Bar., B., artiste solo - fl. (anche picc., fl.a.), ob. (anche c.ing.), cl., cl.b., fg., sax. (sax.s., sax.a., sax.bar.) - cor., 2 tr., trb., tuba - perc. (2 esec. - I: trg., camp., sleigh-bells, ptti. a2, tam.tam., guiro, campli., xil., vibr., marimba, cas., cab., washboard, wood bl.; II: crot., drum set, bell tree, ptto.ch., gong, cmpc., 3 bongo, 2 cocunuts on woodboard, metal chimes, cash bell, sleigh-bells, guiro, trg., cas., campli., tam-tam) - arpa, Hammond org. - strings: vl., vla., vlc., cb.
solo instruments: vl. (Strohviolin), cl.cb., tr., cor.
Duration
110 min
Text
GENET, Jean; MORVAN, Francoise; EÖTVÖS, Péter ; MARKOVITZ, André
Language
French
Commissioned by
Festival International d´art lyrique d´Aix-en-Provence
Premiere information
5 July 2002, Théâtre de l´Archevêché (in cooperation with the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse) Aix-en-Provence, France; Ensemble Intercontemporain, Péter Eötvös (cond.)
Directed by Stanislas Nordey
Publisher / Source
Schott Music International, Mainz © 2002, 51 741
Available here!
Recordings
Film about the premiere, 2002 - Hilary Summers, Morenike Fadayomi, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Péter Eötvös (cond.)
Directed by Stanislas Nordey (Winner of the 2003 Golden Prague Film Festival Grand Prix)
3 April 2005, Festival Theater, MÜPA - Palace of Arts, Budapest; Katalin Várkonyi, Szilvia Rálik, Chamber Ensemble of the Miskolc Symphony ORchestra, Péter Eötvös (cond.)
Directed by Róbert Alföldi
1 min. sample
1 Ouverture
2 Tableau I
3 Tableau II
4 Tableau III
5 Tableau IV
Remarks, other info
Composed: 2002, 2004, revised: 2009

Opera in French, based on Jean Genet´s play "La Balcon" (© Éditions Gallimard), libretto by Francoise Morvan, Peter Eötvös and André Markovitz

Cast:
Irma / La Reine (A.)
Carmen (S.)
La Femme / La Voleuse / La Fille / Chantal (Ms.)
Le Chef de la Police (B.Bar.)
Roger (Bar.)
L´Eveque (B.)
Le Juge (T.)
Le Général (Bar.)
L´Envoyé de la Cour (Bar.)
Le Bourreau / Artur (B.)
Un Révolté / Un photographe / L´Esclave (artiste)
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Schott