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Antigonae ( Antigone ), written by Carl Orff, was first presented on 9 August 1949 under the direction of Ferenc Fricsay in the Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, Austria.
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Most of Orff's later works – Antigonae ( 1949 ), Oedipus der Tyrann ( Oedipus the Tyrant, 1958 ), Prometheus ( 1968 ), and De temporum fine comoedia ( Play on the End of Times, 1971 ) – were based on texts or topics from antiquity.
About his Antigonae ( 1949 ), Orff said specifically that it was not an opera, rather a Vertonung, a " musical setting ", of the ancient tragedy.
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Antigonae is in Orff's words a " musical setting " for the Greek tragedy by Sophocles of the same name.
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He soon won the attention of Ferenc Fricsay, who engaged him for the Salzburg Festival where Haefliger's world career started in 1949 with the role of Terasias in Carl Orff's opera Antigonae.
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Hölderlin's translation into lines of ecstatic German inspired the declamatory technique Orff uses for the first time in much of Antigonae.
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Sophocles ' Antigone ends in disaster, with Antigone hanging herself after being walled up, and Creon's son Haemon ( or Haimon ), who loved Antigone, killing himself after finding her body.
* La Pasión Según Antígona Pérez ( ( The ) Passion according to Antigone Pérez ), adaptation of Sophocles by Puerto Rican writer Luis Rafael Sánchez ( b. 1936 ), updated to 20th century Latin America
" His post-war plays dealt with similar concerns and included Roméo et Jeannette, Médée ( Medea ), and Anouilh's Joan of Arc story L ' Alouette ( The Lark ), which, in its distinct optimism, rivalled the commercial success of Antigone.
* Montpellier-centre: historical centre ( Écusson ), Comédie, Gares, Faubourg Boutonnet, Saint-Charles, Faubourg Saint-Jaume, Peyrou, Les Arceaux, Figuerolles, Faubourg du Courreau, Gambetta, Clémenceau, Méditerranée, boulevard de Strasbourg, Le Triangle, Polygone, Antigone, Nouveau-Monde, Parc à Ballons, Les Aubes, Les Beaux-Arts, Saint-Lazare.
Oedipus and Jocasta had four children: two sons, Eteocles and Polynices ( see Seven Against Thebes ), and two daughters, Antigone and Ismene.
Due to the popularity of Sophocles's Antigone ( c. 442 BC ), the ending ( lines 1005-78 ) of Seven against Thebes was added some fifty years after Aeschylus ' death.
According to Sophocles ' play Antigone, Haemon or Haimon (, Haimon " bloody "; gen .: Αἴμωνος ), was the son of Creon and Eurydice.
* The king of Phthia, son of either Actor, or of Ctimenus ( Κτίμενος ), or of Irus and Demonassa, or of Kenethos and Cerion, and father of Antigone.
In one version of the myth ( different from the one recounted in Sophocles ' Antigone ), he was responsible for the deaths of his aunts Antigone and Ismene, whom he prosecuted for having buried Polynices.
In 1989, he started the fifth period, the last, of his musical writing: He composed three operas ( lyric tragedies ) Medea, first performed in Bilbao ( 1 October 1991 ), Elektra, first performed in Luxembourg ( 2 May 1995 ) and Antigone, first performed in Athens ' Megaron Moussikis ( 7 October 1999 ).
Nikiforos Lytras, Antigone in front of the dead Polynices ( 1865 ), oil on canvas, National Gallery of Greece-Alexandros Soutzos Museum.
In these forms, mythological narratives often serve purposes that are not primarily religious, such as entertainment and even comedy ( The Frogs ), or the exploration of social issues ( Antigone ).
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The play collection named " The Oedipus Cycle " which was translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald also includes the play " Antigone ", accurately written in English.
In 2004 theatre companies Crossing Jamaica Avenue and The Women's Project in New York City co-produced Antigone Project written by Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and Caridad Svich, a five part response to Sophocles ' text and to the US Patriot Act.
In the timeline of the plays, the events of Oedipus at Colonus occur after Oedipus the King and before Antigone ; however, it was chronologically the last of Sophocles ' three Theban plays to be written.
According to Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta ancestry written in 2005, Arthur and Antigone are the illegitimate children of Humphrey and an unknown mistress.
Among his pieces written before his marriage were a translation of the Amphitryon of Plautus, under the title of Les Deux Sosies ( 1636 ), Antigone ( 1638 ), and Laure Persecutie ( acted 1637 ; pr.
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The debt may have been repaid by Sophocles because there appear to be echoes of The Histories in his plays, especially a passage in Antigone that resembles Herodotus's account of the death of Intaphernes ( Histories 3. 119 ~ Antigone 904-20 )-this however is one of the most contentious issues in modern scholarship.
* March – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage ( settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel ).
In Phthia, Peleus was purified by Eurytion and married Antigone, Eurytion's daughter, by whom he had a daughter, Polydora.
Antigone is brought before Creon, where she declares that she knew Creon's law but chose to break it, expounding upon the superiority of ' divine law ' to that made by man.
The dramatist Euripides also wrote a play called Antigone, which is lost, but some of the text was preserved by later writers and in passages in his Phoenissae.
In Euripides, the calamity is averted by the intercession of Dionysus and is followed by the marriage of Antigone and Haemon.
And in Hyginus ' version of the legend, founded apparently on a tragedy by some follower of Euripides, Antigone, on being handed over by Creon to her lover Haemon to be slain, is secretly carried off by him and concealed in a shepherd's hut, where she bears him a son, Maeon.
* The Antigone, one of the three extant Theban plays by Sophocles ( 497 BC – 406 BC )-The most famous adaptation
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