Hugo Weisgall Born: 13 October 1912, Iebenschütz, Moravia (later Ivani&cced;ice, Czechoslovakia; now...?) Emigrated 1920 Died 1997

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Operas

• The Tenor, libretto after Wedekind (1952)
• The Stronger, (1952)
• Purgatory, libretto after Yeats (1958)
• Six Characters in Search of an Author (1959)
• The Gardens of Adonis, libretto after Shakespeare and Obey (1959)
• Athalia, libretto after Racine (1964, concert perf. only)
• Nine Rivers from Jordan, libretto by Denis Johnston (1968; NY City Opera)
• Jennie, or the Hundred Nights, libretto by John Hollander, after Mishima (1976)
• The Garden of Adonis [rev.] (1981)
• Esther (1993; NY City Opera) [commissioned for but refused by the San Francisco Opera]

About Hugo Weisgall

• Six Characters In Search Of An Author. Lyric Opera of Chicago/Schaenen 1994. Compact disc: New World 80454-2.

• The Tenor and The Stronger, on Hugo Weisgall: Two Operas and Two Song Cycles. Aeolian Chamber Players/Weisgall 1997. Compact disc: CRI 757.

• The Stronger (complete opera) Aeolian Chamber Players/Weisgall.
  LP: CRI SD 273