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Phédre / Phaedra

Composer
Csapó Gyula
Original / Hungarian title
Phédre / Phaedra
Foreign language / English title
Phédre / Phaedra
Subtitle
Musical tragedy-parody in five acts
Type
Stage work
Instrumentation
voice soli - mixed choir - picc., 2 fl. (anche fl.a., fl.b.), 2 ob., 2 cl., cl.b., sax.bar., 2 fg., cfg. - 6 cor., 22 tr., 2 trb., tuba - timp., perc. (xil., maracas, gr.c., crot., japanese church bell, tom-tom, trg., ptto.sosp., wood bl., 2 marimba, claves, cimb., camp., tmb.picc., vibr.) - pf., acc., arpa, cel., chit., mand. - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Movements, parts
I - II - III - IV - V
Text
RACINE, Jean; SOMLYÓ, György; SCHILLER, Friedrich; CSAPÓ, Gyula
Language
Hungarian / English / French
Commissioned by
Editio Musica, Universal Music Publishing Classical (Los Angeles) and Armel Opera Festival
Premiere information
19 May 2002, Art Gallery, Budapest; Mária Horváth, Sára Eszter Kővári, Haleh Abghari, Heim Mercedes, Márta Lukin, Zsuzsa Lukin, Klára Kolonits, László Kéringer, Zoltán Mizsei, Tomkins Vocal Ensemble, János Dobra (art.dir.), Componensemble, Zsolt Serei (cond.) (Act 1 and 2)

2014, J. K. Tyl Theatre, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Publisher / Source
Editio Musica Budapest 2003, C-11 (Act Four - The Conspiration)
Available here!
Remarks, other info
Based on the drama by Jean Racine and on its Hungarian and German translations by György Somlyó and Friedrich Schiller

Act 4 (The Conspiration) in form of an opera in one act is winner of the 2014 Opera Composition Competition organized by the Armel Opera Festival and the Pilsen National Theater