Oedipus (Enesco)
Oedipus , COp 23, is a lyric tragedy in four acts and six tables of Georges Enesco on an original French booklet of Edmond Fleg. The opera, completed on April 27th 1931, was created with the Opéra Garnier on May 13rd 1936. The title role was held there by André Pernet. Work is registered among the major lyric compositions of first half of the XXe century. Translated into Rumanian under the supervision of the author, Oedipus was created with Bucharest by Constantin Silvestri in 1958. It is the single opera of the type-setter, whom it dedicated to the princess Marie Cantacuzène. Duration: 2:30 approximately.
The versified booklet gathers Oedipus-king and Oedipus in Colone of Sophocle in only one block linearly directed towards an end with the humanistic message . The role of Oedipus is dominating, at the point to have sometimes made think of a monodrame with supporting characters. The music, at the same time dense, subtle and often changing, which uses in particular the principle of the leitmotive inherited Wagner but has relationships with Debussy as with Honegger and anticipates also Messiaen, exploits very vast wide resources of the musical language and vocal expressivity.
The partition is published in the editions Salabert.
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