Julietta

E757736

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.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Giulietta 1
Julietta canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf opera ⓘ
stage work ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Juliette NERFINISHED ⓘ
Juliette, ou La clé des songes (French version) NERFINISHED ⓘ
basedOn Juliette, ou La clé des songes NERFINISHED ⓘ
play by Georges Neveux ⓘ
composer Bohuslav Martinů NERFINISHED ⓘ
composerNationality Czech ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstPerformanceConductor Vaclav Talich NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre surreal opera ⓘ
hasAdaptation French-language version by the composer ⓘ
hasPart Act I NERFINISHED ⓘ
Act II NERFINISHED ⓘ
Act III NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasRecording commercial audio recordings ⓘ
commercial video recordings ⓘ
influencedBy French theatre of the interwar period ⓘ
surrealism ⓘ
language Czech ⓘ
librettist Bohuslav Martinů NERFINISHED ⓘ
Georges Neveux NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableTheme blurring of reality and dream ⓘ
fragility of memory ⓘ
numberOfActs 3 ⓘ
orchestration full orchestra ⓘ
originalLanguageOfLibretto Czech ⓘ
originalTitle Julietta NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf Bohuslav Martinů’s operatic output ⓘ
period 20th-century opera ⓘ
premiereCountry Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ
premiereDate 1938-03-16 ⓘ
premierePlace Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ
premiereTheatre National Theatre in Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ
protagonist Michel NERFINISHED ⓘ
publisher Boosey & Hawkes NERFINISHED ⓘ
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 NERFINISHED ⓘ
vocalForces chorus ⓘ
solo voices ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bohuslav Martinů → notableWork → Julietta ⓘ
Hoffmann in Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" → hasLoveInterest → Julietta ⓘ
subject surface form: Hoffmann
this entity surface form: Giulietta