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Parafarm

Composer
Demény Attila
Original / Hungarian title
Parafarm
Foreign language / English title
Parafarm
Subtitle
Chamber opera
Year of composition
1992
Type
Opera
Instrumentation
2 B., T., 3 Bar., 5 S., Ms. - chamber orchestra
Duration
24 min
Text
ORWELL, George; MORGENSTERN, Christian; PETRI, György; VISKY, András
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
14 December 1992, 200th Anniversary of Theater Play in Kolozsvár, Kolozsvár Hungarian State Opera, Kolozsvár (Cluj), Romania
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Hungarian Radio, 1993
Hungaroton HCD-32136, 2002 - Bálint Szabó (B.), Domokos Kiss (T.), Zsejke Székely (S.), Mária Mányoki (Ms.), Zsolt Dámiel (B.), Béla Szilágyi (Bar.), János Ádám, László Veress (Bar.), Éva Orth, Ildikó Veress, Ildikó Salamon, Ilona Salamon (S.), Chamber Orchestra of Kolozsvár Hungarian State Opera, Attila Demény (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Libretto by András Visky inspired from George Orwell´s Animal Farm and texts by Christian Morgenstern and György Petri