Antigone (Honegger)
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Antigone is an opera 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 o
Émile Colonne as Créon in the 1927 premiere
Le Pauvre Matelot
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Le Pauvre Matelot is a three-act opera composed by Darius Milhaud with libretto by Jean Cocteau. It was given its premiere on 16 December 1927 by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris. Le pau
Antigone (Honegger)
…rejected it as "too advanced" for the French public. Instead, it premiered at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie on 28 December 1927 in a triple bill with Le pauvre matelot and Shéhérazade using the sets by Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel that had been designed for the 1922 performance of the play. The opera subsequently…
Milhaud in 1923