Antigone (1927)

Original id: 
1935
Start date: 
28 December 1927
Degree of relationship to ancient play: 
Adaptation
Production notes: 
Grove Music Online states that Honegger started work on this opera in 1924, following the commission to write incidental music for Charles Dullin's production of Cocteau's adaptation in 1922 (ID 1933). Grove describes the work as a tragédie musicale in three acts.
Media of production: 
Stage-play
Languages: 
French
Companies:
Ancient works:
Antigone

Information related to this production

Person Role Notes
Artur Honegger Composer
Source Format Location if held at the APGRD Pagination
Inszenierung der Antike: das Griechische Drama auf der Bühne der Neuzeit Book library 402; 148 & ff.
The Use of Greek Tragedy in the History of Opera Print-out archive 87
Grove Music Online Website New Grove Opera: s.v. Honegger, Arthur

How to cite this production

Antigone (1927), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/1935 <1 December 2024>