Julietta

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Julietta is a surreal three-act opera by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, based on Georges Neveux’s play about a man searching for a woman in a dreamlike town where people have lost their memories.

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Julietta canonical 5
Giulietta 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf opera
stage work
alsoKnownAs Juliette
Juliette, ou La clé des songes (French version)
basedOn Juliette, ou La clé des songes
play by Georges Neveux
composer Bohuslav Martinů
composerNationality Czech
countryOfOrigin Czechoslovakia
firstPerformanceConductor Vaclav Talich
linked to: Václav Talich
genre surreal opera
hasAdaptation French-language version by the composer
hasPart Act I
Act II
Act III
hasRecording commercial audio recordings
commercial video recordings
influencedBy French theatre of the interwar period
surrealism
language Czech
librettist Bohuslav Martinů
Georges Neveux
notableTheme blurring of reality and dream
fragility of memory
numberOfActs 3
orchestration full orchestra
originalLanguageOfLibretto Czech
originalTitle Julietta
partOf Bohuslav Martinů’s operatic output
period 20th-century opera
premiereCountry Czechoslovakia
premiereDate 1938-03-16
premierePlace Prague
premiereTheatre National Theatre in Prague
linked to: Národní divadlo
protagonist Michel
publisher Boosey & Hawkes
setting dreamlike town
settingCharacteristic inhabitants have lost their memories
structure three acts
style modernist
subject dreams
memory loss
search for a woman
timePeriodOfComposition late 1930s
titleCharacter Julietta
vocalForces chorus
solo voices

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Bohuslav Martinů notableWork Julietta
Hoffmann hasLoveInterest Giulietta
linked to: Julietta
Promos and Cassandra featuresCharacter Julietta
Julietta titleCharacter Julietta
Julietta originalTitle Julietta
Marc Allégret notableWork Julietta