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

Herculine Barbin


Composer

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
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)"