Oresteia (Орестея in Cyrillic) is an opera in three parts, eight tableaux, with music by Sergei Taneyev, composed during 1887–1894. The composer titled...
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The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon...
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Oresteia is a Greek opera by Iannis Xenakis originally composed in 1965 and 1966. The work is based on the Oresteia by Aeschylus. It is written for a...
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king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy. In Aeschylus' Oresteia, she murders Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second husband – and...
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List of compositions by Sergei Taneyev (section Opera)
minor (1884, published 1947) Oresteia, overture for orchestra, Op. 6 (1889, a symphonic poem based on themes from the opera) Symphony No. 4 in C minor,...
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Taneyev's full-length opera Oresteia. In the 20th century Soviet composer Yury Alexandrovich Falik composed a one-act ballet Oresteia; Darius Milhaud supplied...
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acts. The libretto, by François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, is based on the Oresteia by Aeschylus. According to the site CESAR[permanent dead link] (in French)...
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Edirne, a city in Turkey The Oresteia, a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus Oresteia (opera), a Russian-language opera by Sergei Taneyev Orestia...
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much older works. In particular Orestes plays a main role in Aeschylus' Oresteia. The Greek name Ὀρέστης, having become "Orestēs" in Latin and its descendants...
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