Composition database

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.

Title of the work

The Fox, Op. 88


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
The Fox, Op. 88 / A róka, Op. 88
Foreign language / English title
The Fox, Op. 88
Subtitle
Comic opera in one act
Year of composition
1956

Type
Opera
Instrumentation
S., A., Bar. - actor (pantomime) - fl., 2 ob., fg. - 2 cor., 2 tr., trb. - timp., perc. - arpa - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
35 min

Text
MIKSZÁTH, Kálmán; HALL, Shawn
Language
English
Premiere information
28 January 1961, Cleveland
Publisher / Source
American New Opera Theater Society © 1956
Remarks, other info
Text by Shwan Hall (pseudonym of Elizabeth Davis Kondorossy) after Kálmán Mikszáth´s novel "Little Fox"