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Herculine Barbin

Composer
Szigeti Máté
Original / Hungarian title
Herculine Barbin
Foreign language / English title
Herculine Barbin
Subtitle
Chamber opera
Year of composition
2016
Type
Opera
Instrumentation
S., Ct., Bar. - ob., cl.b. - cor. - pf. - perc. (2 esec.) - strings: 10 vl. 1, 10 vl. 2, 8 vla., 6 vlc., 3 cb.
Duration
32 min
Text
SZIGETI, Máté
Language
English
Publisher / Source
MS
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Remarks, other info
Libretto by Máté Szigeti based on sections from the english verrsion of Michel Foucault´s "Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite)"