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Circe (Egk)

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Circe
Opera by Werner Egk
File:Werner Egk (timbre allemand).jpg
The composer on a German stamp
LibrettistEgk
LanguageGerman

Circe is a 1945 opera by Werner Egk after Pedro Calderón de la Barca, premiered 1948. Egk reworked it as an opera semibuffa as 17 Tage und 4 Minuten, 1966.[1]

References

  1. ^ The Oxford Dictionary of Music 0199578540 ed. Michael Kennedy, Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Joyce Kennedy-2013 p.256 "operas: Columbus (1933 radio, 1942 stage); Die Zaubergeige (1935, rev. 1954); *Peer Gynt (1938); Circe (1945, rev. 1966 as 17 Tage und 4 Minuten); *Irische Legende (after Yeats, 1955, rev. 1970); Der Revisor (after Gogol's The *Government Inspector, 1957); Die Verlobung in San Domingo (1963). "


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