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	Antigone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antigone's character and these incidents of her life presented an attractive subject to the Greek tragic poets, especially Sophocles in the Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus, and Euripides, whose Antigone, though now lost, is partly known from extracts incidentally preserved in later writers, and from passages in his Phoenissae.
		Again, in regard to Antigone's tragic end Sophocles differs from Euripides, according to whom the calamity was averted by the intercession of Dionysus and was followed by the marriage of Antigone and Haemon.
		Antigone placing the body of Polyneices on the funeral pile occurs on a sarcophagus in the villa Pamfili in Rome, and is mentioned in the description of an ancient painting by Philostratus (Imag.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antigone (837 words)

	Antigone (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antigone (Antigonae in German), written by Carl Orff, was first presented in 1949 in Salzburg, Austria.
		Antigone is in Orff's words a "musical setting" for the Greek tragedy by Sophocles of the same name.
		Another early device found in Antigone is the melisma, where many notes are assigned to a single syllable, which is found as well in the music of other ancient and modern cultures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antigone_(opera) (579 words)

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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/opera.html (2221 words)

	:: SHOWstudio ::
		This Antigone is remarkable because it ends with the marriage of Hémon and Antigone following the pardon given by Créon to his son, who had wanted to join Antigone in her cave and die with her [footnote].
		Antigone here is a woman, a sister who takes the law into her own hands to achieve her secret and personal project to finish with the world so that something elsewhere can be reborn differently.
		In opera, the director is also the artistic director in everything that concerns the dramatic art, the aesthetics and the theatre direction of the singers, which he does in agreement with the conductor.
	www.showstudio.com /projects/opera/interview3.html (1316 words)

	Antigone (opera) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Antigone is in Orff's words a "musical setting" for the (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek
		King ((Greek mythology) the brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus) Creon, who ascended the (The chair of state of a monarch, bishop, etc.) throne of Thebes after both brothers are killed in battle, decrees that Polynices is not to be buried.
		Another early device found in Antigone is the (Click link for more info and facts about melisma) melisma, where many notes are assigned to a single syllable, which is found as well in the music of other ancient and modern (A particular society at a particular time and place) cultures.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/antigone_(opera).htm (647 words)

	Gail Holst on Theodorakis's Antigone
		Antigone is the most lyrical of Theodorakis’s three operas and the one in which he makes the synthesis of his popular and classical composition most transparent.
		Instead, it is an opera that quite logically closes the circle begun with the ballet Antigone and moved through Epitaphios and the great song-cycles of the 1960’s to the choral symphony and back to the youthful composer’s fascination with ancient drama, poetry and song.
		Opera goers are generally conservative and the new operas that become part of the repertoire are few and far between.
	www.mikis-theodorakis.net /gh_antigone.html (2635 words)

	Antigone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The best-known Antigone in Greek mythology was the daughter of Oedipus.
		Antigone's sister, Ismene, then declared she had aided Antigone and wanted the same fate.
		Another Antigone was the daughter of Eurytion and wife of Peleus.
	www.centipedia.com /index.php?title=Antigone (444 words)

	OPERA America: Opera Fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Opera Omaha will use their award to initiate a collaboration among composer Anthony Davis, librettist Yusef Komunyakaa, dramaturg Rhoda Levine, and Opera Omaha's artistic and executive directors for the purpose of developing a new opera based on actual events that occurred between 1877 and 1879 in Nebraska.
		Vancouver Opera, in partnership with the Canadian Music Centre, will use this award to invite up to four composers to workshop scenes from newly composed works in July 2003, with the intention of forming the artistic team to create an opera for young audiences on the topic of Japanese internment camps in Canada during WWII.
		The opera is a collaboration among three organizations, each bringing a particular expertise to the project: Les Coups de Théâtre specializes in work for young audiences; L'Opéra de Montréal is an opera production company; and Nouvel Ensemble Moderne specializes in new work.
	www.operaam.org /operafund/2003winners.htm (3408 words)

	Nowt2Do.Com Review - AntiGone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Antigone seeks to bury her brother out of love, even if though a death penalty has been put on such an action.
		Antigone burries her brother, is brought before Creon, who sentences her to death, and later decides this is too good for her, and that she must be cast into a hole in the rock which never sees any light, and live there along forever.
		The complication is that Creon's son, Haemon, is engaged to marry Antigone.
	www.nowt2do.co.uk /TReview_Antigone.htm (843 words)

	The News@Ellsworth American.com \|
		Antigone, the sister of the fallen warriors, disobeys Creon and anoints her brother’s corpse.
		Antigone’s choice to stand on her own against a male-dominated society and to disobey the king’s worldly decree in order to answer to a higher power suggest themes that are poignant today.
		When Antigone’s disobedience is disclosed, Creon sends her to a cave to starve, setting in motion revenge of the gods and the ruin of his family.
	www.ellsworthamerican.com /archive/2004/11-04-04/ea_news8_11-04-04.html (687 words)

	'Oedipe': Opera Lafayette's Rare Treasure
		The performing group Opera Lafayette is still relatively unknown, though rapidly gaining followers, and composer Antonio Sacchini (1730-1786) is hardly a household name though this, his last work, was wildly successful, with 583 performances at the Paris Opera between 1787 and 1844.
		The opera is based on Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus at Colonus," the second item in a trilogy that is one of the glories of Greek literature.
		Paulin's Antigone was deeply appealing in voice and stage presence, and the supporting cast was well chosen and expertly prepared.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/15/AR2005051500924_pf.html (358 words)

	Pythagoras, a footnote
		Antigone, Oedipus' daughter, defies the order and gives her brother a token burial.
		The other operas by Strauss, given in the Appendix are almost at the same overall level of excellence.
		His other operas are also uniformly superb; if they do not show the ultimate in psychological insight, they yield the ultimate in Handel's music, and that is pretty high.
	home.att.net /~paul.hoffman1/grdrmpsound.htm (5727 words)

	:: SHOWstudio ::
		In March and June 2004, the Parisian art directors collaborated with esteemed conductor Christophe Rousset and theatre director Éric Vigner on a maverick re-staging of Tommaso Traetta's 1722 opera of Greek myth Antigone.
		According to the Greek legend, Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta.
		Antigone decides to disobey, arguing that the law of man that violates a religious law is no law at all.
	www.showstudio.com /projects/opera/intro.html (434 words)

	An odd take on 'Antigone'
		The murder she alleges is a stunning long-distance wushu pas de deux between Furumoto's solid, imposing C and a breathtakingly fluid, athletic Raul Jocson.
		Antigone's arrogant streak has always been part of what made her such a complex dramatic hero.
		A is an Antigone bent on martyrdom out of spite for C, as a shortcut to nirvana ("Freedom is not of this dimension") and for the odd notion that suffering -- apparently for whatever reason -- will "purify" her family's legendarily bad karma.
	www.rickross.com /reference/fa_lun_gong/falun287.html (896 words)

	Opera Lafayette - Reviews
		Since he first began doing opera as part of his group's repertoire, with a performance of the chamber opera "Acteon" by Charpentier in 1998, Brown has managed to attract stars from the world of early performance.
		In Europe, mainstream opera companies will sometimes have established partnerships with period instruments groups or will maintain their own ensembles to give listeners a diet of opera that goes beyond the well-trod two centuries of familiar repertoire (Mozart to Strauss) they generally offer.
		The members of Opera Lafayette share generous experience in performing French Baroque music...Robert Getchell's Hippolyte had all the intensity that Hippolyte's passion called for, while Gaële Le Roi artfully conveyed Aricie's devoted, yet troubled adoration of her lover.
	www.operalafayette.org /reviews.html (2363 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts reviews \| Antigone
		It is alive with the dead, and now there is a new arrival: the fierce ghost of teenage martyr Antigone, who believes so passionately that her chosen path is the right one that she defies the law and brings tragedy tumbling down on herself and those she loves.
		Antigone is a play driven by the passion of youthful certainty and it is produced here by a new young company, Insite.
		Some of the performances are uncertain, too, although you believe in the inner hurricane of Bridget Collins's Antigone, and Francis Kelly persuades as Creon, the ruler knowing he will live for ever with the consequences of his failure.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1566778,00.html (287 words)

	The Good Life \| 'Aida' shows desire to do right universal
		Its epic sweep, involving a war between the Egyptians and Ethiopians, is only intensified by conflicts between civic and familial loyalty and by an impossible love between Radames, the commander of the Egyptian forces, and the slave Aida, daughter of the Ethiopian king.
		It is thus an opera not to be missed.
		At the heart of the tragedy is the relationship between Aida and her father, the Ethiopian king, also taken prisoner in the course of the opera.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~sschuman/goodlife/aida.shtml (946 words)

	Inge Borkh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Needless to say, her training in both performing arts served her well in opera: she became known both for her voice and for her dramatic intensity - the "singing actress" exemplified, years before the term became common usage.
		It was her key to international stardom, leading to engagements in the world's great opera houses: Vienna, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, and San Francisco where she sang almost all the roles that she could do.
		Today, she is a fit and happy octogenarian, and as the photos here show, still very much in possession of the great looks that in her prime have always matched her great voice.
	www.ffaire.com /events/borkh.html (370 words)

	South Coast Repertory Playgoers Guide - 'Antigone' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		She was not able “to grasp the character of the noble and devoted Antigone.” Thus despite Dinneford’s reduction of the ticket price, the curtain fell on the production after barely two weeks.
		In the 1980s, the appeal of Antigone lay less in her battle against Creon’s autocracy and more in her assertion of personal belief: the young woman is willing to die for what she holds to be true.
		While Antigone is a young girl, she is able to speak for those who wish to highlight women’s courage and integrity.
	www.scr.org /season/03-04season/playgoers/antigone/america.html (767 words)

	Tommaso Traetta: Interview - Antigona: conducter, Christophe Rousset
		Written for Catherine II in St Petersburg, illustrating the 'enlighted' king, the opera is certainly a tribute to the general courant of philosophy in Europe.
		Sophocles' original tragedy of Antigone ends in tragedy, with the heroine choosing to die, rather than accepting the new King of Thebes' decree that the former king?her brother Polynices?may not be buried since he led an attack against Thebes.
		Some opera historians have suggested that the expressive heights reached in Antigone were owed in part to the availability of the contemporary soprano Caterina Gabrielli.
	www.traetta.com /2005/01/interview-antigona-conducter.html (942 words)

	BBC - Norfolk On Stage - Preview of Antigone by Pirateutopia
		A modern version of the classic Greek tragedy - after Antigone's brother leads an unsuccessful civil uprising, she is forbidden from burying his body by the ruler, Creon.
		Antigone continues the company's focus on classic texts.
		Antigone can be seen at the Norwich Arts Centre from Wednesday 29 - Friday 31 October, 2003 at 8pm with a matinee at 3pm on Friday 31.
	www.bbc.co.uk /norfolk/stage/antigone_preview.shtml (379 words)

	Pocket Opera returns to stage this month
		The two operas were written by John Eaton, Professor in Music, who has revived and reorganized his Pocket Opera Company.
		Eaton formed the Pocket Opera Company of Chicago in 1992 with the idea that a small, innovative opera company could tour easily and perform in non-traditional venues.
		Antigone is set to a libretto by Eaton’s long-time collaborator, Nicolas Rudall, Associate Professor in Classics, who also was the Director of Court Theatre for many years.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /991202/opera.shtml (801 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - Oedipe: by George Enescu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It is now considered among the towering achjevements of 20th century opera but and astonishingly this is its British premiere.
		THE Romanian composer George Enescu didn’t spare the horses when he wrote his one and only opera, Oedipe, a colossal orchestral score, sizzling like overheated Wagner and topped by three sets of timpani and fearsome wind machine; a tapestry of tough...
		Opera has always thrived on ancient Greek myths, but it ignored the great Oedipus story until last century.
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /listings.cfm?sid=2071 (163 words)

	Opera Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He has also served as Music Director/Conductor for the UCLA Opera, principal coach/assistant conductor for USC Opera, and was on the professional staff at Oberlin Conservatory where he was assistant music director/chorus master for Oberlin Opera Theater.
		Bates was a member of the Chautauqua Opera Young Artist Program, where she sang the role of the Shepherd in Tosca and covered the role of Amy in Little Women.
		Curtain time for IU Opera Theater is promptly at 8 p.m., by which time all opera goers should be in their seats.
	www.music.indiana.edu /publicity/opera/newsletter/vol1-number6/biographies.html (2860 words)

	AthensNews onLine SEARCH
		Theodorakis said that his latest opera, Lysistrata, is a rather apt inclusion in the Cultural Olympiad's programme, as it deals with the matter of national unity.
		This anti-polemic opera - based on Aristophane's ancient work - is incredibly suitable to our day and age.
		The opera tetralogy (Medea, Electra, Antigone, Lysistrata), plus the ballet Zorbas and the choral work Canto Generale, are all on the Cultural Olympiad's agenda.
	www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12928&m=A41&aa=2&eidos=S (380 words)

	Achelous
		An opera in three acts on the same story of Achilles' attempt to avoid the Trojan War.
		An opera in which Dido is deserted by Aeneas, sees her city burned, and dies in the conflagration.
		An opera which starts with the basic plot, but adds a new lover for Admetus when Heracles is to thought to have failed in his mission to rescue Alcestis, only to have Alcestis re-appear.
	www.jcu.edu /myth&music/ACHELOUS.HTM (3800 words)

	Jay K. Hoffman & Associates: John Eaton, Composer
		The Pocket Operas will be performed by the Pocket Opera Players nightly at 8PM, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center Theatre.
		Myshkin, Eaton's 1970 television opera based on Dostoevsky's The Idiot, was the winner of both the Peabody and Ohio State awards for excellence in television, and has been widely seen over the years on world television outlets.
		Eaton's first “Pocket Opera” was commissioned by the New York New Music Ensemble, which asked for “a piece in which they could do more than just play their instruments”.
	www.jaykhoffman.com /bios/eaton.htm (659 words)

	The Burial at Thebes - Sophocles’ Antigone translated by Seamus Heaney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Following a failed rebellion led by Polyneices, one of the sons of the incestuous Oedipus, the new King, Creon (Lorcan Cranitch), has decreed that the traitor’s body be left to rot in the streets of Thebes.
		Negga (Duck) and Kelly Campbell as Antigone’s sister Ismene initially seem unable to balance the bombast of the speeches with the intimacy of dialogue between characters, though Negga finally comes into her own with her impassioned defiance of Creon.
		The fact is that the richness and power of this classic piece of theatre have been respected while the needs and the ear of a contemporary audience have also been addressed.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater6/BurialatThebes.htm (685 words)

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