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Bánk Bán - Opera in Three Acts

Composer
Erkel Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Bánk Bán - Opera három felvonásban
Foreign language / English title
Bánk Bán - Opera in Three Acts
Year of composition
1861
Type
Opera
Instrumentation
Ms., S., 3 T., 5 Bar. solo - choir - orchestra
Duration
126 min
Text
EGRESSY, Béni; KATONA, József; VÖRÖSMARTY, Mihály
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
9 March 1861, National Theater, Pest (Budapest)
Publisher / Source
Edition Rózsavölgyi & Co., RET065 (Score) or RET022 (Piano reduction)
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Recordings
Hungaroton HCD 11376-77, 1994 (Recorded in 1969) - Erzsébet Komlóssy, Sándor Sólyom-Nagy, József Réti, József Simándy, Karola Ágai, György Melis, András Faragó, László Palócz, Orchestra of the Philharmonic Society, Choir of the Hanugarian National Opera János Ferencsik (cond.) (Based on the revised version from 1939)
Magyar Állami Operaház Opera Studio CD 001, 2011 - Gyöngyi Lukács, Tamás Busa, Attila Fekete, János Bándi, Ingrid Kertesi, Mihály Kálmándi, Csaba Szegedi, Béla Perencz, László Beöthy-Kiss, Orchestra and Choir of the Hungarian State Opera, Dopmonkos Héja (cond.) (Based on the original version)
Alpha Line Records 1 ALR005, 1993 - Éva Marton, János Gurbán, Tamás Daróczy, András Molnár, Ingris Kertesi, István Gáti, Mihály Kálmándi, Csaba Airizer, Attila Fülöp, Pál Oberfrank, Hungarian Festival Choir, Budapest Symphonists, Géza Oberfrank (cond.) (Based on the original version)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1844 - 1860, revised in 1935 by Nándor Rékai

Libretto after József Katona´s drama by Béni Egressy (Bordal - Drinking-Song - after Mihály Vörösmarty)

 

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