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Die Teufel von Loudun : Oper in drei Akten

Title
Die Teufel von Loudun : Oper in drei Akten / Krysztof Penderecki.
Author
Penderecki, Krzysztof, 1933-2020.
Publication
Holland : Philips, ℗1970.

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Additional Authors
  • Troyanos, Tatiana.
  • Hiolski, Andrzej.
  • Ladysz, Bernard.
  • Janowski, Marek.
  • Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.
  • Whiting, John, 1917-1963.
  • Hamburgische Staatsoper. prf
Description
2 audio discs; 12 in.
Summary
This intense opera about the real-life French priest Urbain Grandier deals with themes of religion, sexuality, and madness. Jeanne, the deformed Irsuline prioress, nurses a lust-driven obsession with Grandier, without ever having met him.
Alternative Title
Devils of Loudun
Subject
  • Grandier, Urbain, 1590-1634 > Drama
  • Grandier, Urbain, 1590-1634
  • Couvent des Ursulines (Loudun, France) > Drama
  • Couvent des Ursulines (Loudun, France)
  • Operas
  • Demoniac possession > Drama
  • Demoniac possession
  • Operas
Genre/Form
  • Operas
  • Drama
  • Operas.
Note
  • Philips: 6700 042 (6500 050--6500 051) .
  • "World première recording"--Container.
  • "Based on John Whiting's dramatisation of Aldous Huxley's The devils of Loudon, in the German translation of Erich Fried"--Program notes.
  • Program notes in English by A. David Hogarth, with French and German translations, and libretto in German with English and French translations ([60] p. : ill.) laid in container.
Language (note)
  • Sung in German.
OCLC
  • ocm22944492
  • 22944492
  • SCSB-1480689
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library