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A Beautiful Hungarian Comedy

Composer
Beischer-Matyó Tamás
Original / Hungarian title
Szép magyar komédia
Foreign language / English title
A Beautiful Hungarian Comedy
Subtitle
lyric opera in 5 acts
Year of composition
2021
Type
Opera
Instrumentation
4 Bar., 3 S., Ms., 2 T., B. soli - girls´ choir, mixed choir - 4 dancer - 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 2 tr., 2 trb. - perc. (8 esec.: marimba, vibr., yil., crot., sonagli, 4 conga, 2 bongo, 2 timbales, trg., tambourine, 5 temple bl.) - arpa, cemb., lute - strings: 16 vl., 4 vla., 2 vlc., 2 cb.
Duration
150 min
Text
BALASSI, Bálint;
Language
Hungarian
Publisher / Source
MS
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Remarks, other info
Composed: 2018 - 2021

After Bálint Balassi´s poems and drama with the same title, based on Cristoforo Castelletti´s Amarilli

Libretto compiled and edited by Tamás Beischer-Matyó