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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

Excelsior!

Composer
Fekete Gyula
Original / Hungarian title
Excelsior!
Foreign language / English title
Excelsior!
Subtitle
Liszt Ferenc´s Ascension - Half-Serious Opera in Two Acts
Year of composition
2010
Type
Opera
Instrumentation
actor - 2 T., Ms., 2 S., A., Ca., Bar. - orchestra
Duration
90 min
Text
PAPP, András
Language
Hungarian
Commissioned by
Budapest Spring Festival 2011
Premiere information
18 March 2011, Budapest Spring Festival, Thalia Theater, Budapest; Attila Fekete (T.), Tamás Fodor, Viktória Mester (Ms.), Ingrid Kertesi (S.), Annamária Kovács (A.), Gábor Birta (Ca.), Tünde Frankó (S.), András Káldi Kiss (Bar.), Tivadar Kiss (T.), Gergely Kesselyák (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Duna TV (available at NAVA.hu - National Audio-Visual Archive)
Remarks, other info
Libretto by András Papp after the biography of Franz Liszt