Gli dei a Tebe

Gli dei a Tebe is an opera in 3 acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a libretto by Mario Ghisalberti. The premiere was given as Der Kuckuck in Theben in a translation by Ludwig Anderson (real name Ludwig Strecker) on 4 June 1943 at the Hanover Staatsoper.[1]

References

  1. ↑ David Mason Greene Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers -0385142781 1985- Page 1044 "Perhaps sensing that his operatic sun had set, Wolf-Ferrari took up writing orchestral and chamber music again, including a violin concerto, a cello concerto and a short symphony. His final operas were La Dama boba (The Silly Lady, after Lope de Vega), produced at La Scala in 1939, and Gli Dei a Tebe (The Gods at Thebes), at Hannover in 1943. During World War II he taught at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Afterward he returned to Zürich but came back to Venice to die."
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