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This is the Composition Database of BMC, which includes information about works by composers that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary.

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Title of the work

Karl and Anna, Op. 41

Composer

Balassa Sándor

Original / Hungarian title

Karl és Anna, Op. 41

Foreign language / English title

Karl and Anna, Op. 41

Subtitle

Opera in Three Acts

Dedication

Mariann

Year of composition

1992

Type

Opera

Instrumentation

2 T., 2 S., Ms., boy soprano, Ca., B.Bar., 3 Bar., B. - orchestra

Duration

167 min

Movements, parts

I. felvonás / Act I.
1. Sztyeppe / The Steppes
2. Lakókonyha / A kitchen living room
3. Barakk / The baracks

II. felvonás / Act II.
1. Lakókonyha / A kitchen living room
2. Ház / A house
3. Lépcsőház, folyosó / Staircase, gangway
4. Lakókonyha / A kitchen living room
5. Marie szobája / Marie´s room
6. Folyosó / Gangway
7. Lakókonyha / A kitchen living room
8. A fasor / Avenue
9. Ház / A house

III. felvonás / Act III.
1. Idegenben / On a far off land
2. Lakókonyha / A kitchen living room
3. Lakókonyha / A kitchen living room
4. Ház / A house
5. A ház előtt / In fornt of the house
6. Lakókonyha / A kitchen living room

Text

BALASSA, Sándor; FODOR, Géza; FRANK, Leonhard

Language

Hungarian / German

Premiere information

20 May 1995, Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest;

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Recordings

Hungaroton HCD 32162-64, 2003 - Kiss Domokos (T.), Tünde Frankó (S.), Ákos Ambrus (Bar.), Jolán Sánta (Ms.), Beatrix Fodor (S.), Jutta Bokor (Ca.), Ferenc Gerdesits (T.), Sándor Egri (B.Bar.), Balázs Laborvalvi Soós (B.), László Orbán (Bar.), Ferenc Korpás (B.), Károly Sárosi (Bar.), Attila Ivanics (boy soprano), Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Imre Sallay (cond.)

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