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Werk: Julietta, or The Key of Dreams

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KomponistMartinů, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
PeriodeFrühes 20. Jahrhundert
Jahr1938
GattungOper / Oratorium
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Dream-Team an der Berliner Staatsoper für Martinůs Julietta

Eine herausragende Premiere von Bohuslav Martinůs Julietta am Berliner Schiller Theater erntet stehende Ovationen.
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Julietta: Ambiguity with a capital “A”

Julietta, Bohuslav Martinů’s seldom performed surrealistic opera of dreams and lost identity recently premiered in a new Zurich production.
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Surrealism in the opera house: Martinů's Julietta at ENO

For a Parisian, the accordion is the musical instrument most redolent of memories and dreams. So for Bohuslav Martinů's surrealist opera Julietta, written in Paris and infused with a discombobulating jumble of memories and dreams, Antony McDonald's sets were masterpieces: in each of three acts, the stage is dominated by a giant accordion which is more or less the size of the whole stage.
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