Irische Legende

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Irische Legende is a 1955 opera by Werner Egk after the 1892/1899 verse drama The Countess Cathleen by W. B. Yeats.[1] Egk revised the opera in 1975.[2]

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References

  1. ^ "Eine kleine Nazi musik?" by Tim Ashley, The Guardian, 17 August 2001
  2. ^ 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)."