Christophe Colomb
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This article is about the opera. For the explorer, see Christopher Columbus.
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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Christophe Colomb | |
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Opera by Darius Milhaud | |
Librettist | Paul Claudel |
Language | French |
Based on | Life of Christopher Columbus |
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