Antigone (Honegger)

Arthur Honegger

Operas Antigone (1927) Les aventures du roi Pausole (1930) L'Aiglon (1937)

Émile Colonne as Créon in Honegger's Antigone on 28 December 1927 in Brussels

Antigone is an opera (tragédie musicale) 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 on 28 December 1927 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie with sets designed by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, 28 December 1927 (Conductor:)
Antigone	contralto	Simone Ballard
Ismène	soprano	Eglantine Deulin
Eurydice	mezzo-soprano	Melle Gerday
Créon	baritone	Émile Colonne
Hémon	baritone	P. Gilson
Tirésias	bass	Milorad Jovanovitch

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Fulcher, Jane F., The composer as intellectual: music and ideology in France 1914-1940, Oxford University Press US, 2005, pp. 187-188. ISBN 0-19-517473-9

Fulcher, Jane F., "French Identity in Flux: Vichy's Collaboration, and Antigone's Operatic Triumph", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 150, 2 (June 2006), pp. 261–295