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Title of the work

Jesus Before Herod

Composer
Wayditch Gábriel
Original / Hungarian title
Jézus Heródes előtt
Foreign language / English title
Jesus Before Herod
Subtitle
Opera in one act
Year of composition
1918
Type
Opera
Instrumentation
voice soli - choir - orchestra
Duration
40 min
Text
WAYDITCH, Gábirel von
Language
Hungarian / English
Premiere information
5 April 1980, Civic Theatre, San Diego, California; San Diego Master Chorale, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Peter Erős (cond.) (Concert version)
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
LP Musical Heritage Society MHS 3565-3566., 1977 (Recorded at Qualiton Studios, Hungary, 1975) - Soloists, orchestra and chorus of the Budapest National Opera, András Koródy (cond.)
Musical Heritage Society, LP MHS 4167, 1980 - San Diego Master Chorale, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Peter Erős (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Libretto by Gabriel von Wayditch

English translation by Ivan Walter von Wayditch