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Title of the work

A Strange Night

Composer
Polgár Tibor
Original / Hungarian title
Különös éjszaka
Foreign language / English title
A Strange Night
Subtitle
Opera in 1 act
Year of composition
1978
Type
Opera
Instrumentation
S., 3 T., 2 Bar., B. - 2 fl (III anche picc.), 2 ob. (II anche c.ing.), 2 cl. (II cl.b.), 2 fg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 3 trb., tuba - timp., perc. (3 esec.) - arpa, cel. - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
50 min
Text
POLGÁR, Tibor; SZAKONYI, Károly
Language
Hungarian / English
Premiere information
1978
Publisher / Source
Canadian Music Centre
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Remarks, other info
Libretto by Tibor Polgár based on a short stroy by Károly Szakonyi

English libretto written in collaboration with Pauline Carey