Written 1928 Composer Darius Milhaud | First performance 5 May 1930 Librettist Paul Claudel | |
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Characters Master of ceremonies, Christopher Columbus Similar Antigone, Le domino noir, Ariane et Barbe‑bleue, The Voyage, Cristoforo Colombo | ||
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Christophe Colomb (Christopher Columbus) is an opera in two parts by the French composer Darius Milhaud. The poet Paul Claudel wrote the libretto based on his own play about the life of Christopher Columbus, Le Livre de Christophe Colomb. The opera was first performed at the Staatsoper, Berlin on 5 May 1930 in a German translation by Rudolph Stephan Hoffmann. Milhaud thoroughly revised the work and produced a second version around 1955. The opera is on a large scale and requires many resources for its staging. As in many of his other works, Milhaud employs polytonality in parts of the score.
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The opera tells the life of Christopher Columbus in a series of episodes which avoid chronological order and are sometimes allegorical.
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