Antigone

Arthur Honegger
Operas Antigone (1927) Les aventures du roi Pausole (1930) L'Aiglon (1937)
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Émile Colonne as Créon in Honegger's Antigone on 28 December 1927 in Brussels

Antigone is an opera (tragédie musicale) in three acts by Arthur Honegger to a French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. Honegger composed the opera between 1924 and 1927. It premiered on 28 December 1927 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie with sets designed by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel.

Roles

Sources

• Casaglia, Gherardo, Almanacco Amadeus. Accessed 28 August 2009
• Cooke, Mervyn (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-century Opera, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 135-136. ISBN 0-521-78009-8
• Fulcher, Jane F., The composer as intellectual: music and ideology in France 1914-1940, Oxford University Press US, 2005, pp. 187-188. ISBN 0-19-517473-9

External links

• Fulcher, Jane F., "French Identity in Flux: Vichy's Collaboration, and Antigone's Operatic Triumph", Proceedings of the American Philosphical Society, Vol. 150, 2 (June 2006), pp. 261-295

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