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Mourning Becomes Electra (opera)

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on October 18, 2003. The orchestration was further cut down and electronic samplers added. A number of passages were re-written or omitted and a new finale was created. In addition, the opera was restructured from the original three acts (corresponding to the original O'Neill drama) into two. This
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designed the sets, costumes, and lighting. The original production was critically well received, returned for a second season at the Met, and was presented successfully in Germany.
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in 1998 in a revised version that reduced the orchestration and simplified the harmonic language. A more drastic revision of the opera was subsequently premiered at the
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However, it then vanished from the stage. After thirty years, the opera was presented by
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Chorus of Soldiers, Servants, Townspeople, Sailors, Dockworkers, Fieldworkers
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staged it in November 2013 in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.
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libretto
play of the same name
Eugene O'Neill
Metropolitan Opera
Zubin Mehta
Michael Cacoyannis
Boris Aronson
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Seattle Opera
New York City Opera
Lauren Flanigan
Florida Grand Opera
Marie Collier
Evelyn Lear
John Reardon
Sherrill Milnes
John Macurdy
Ron Bottcher
Lilian Sukis
Raymond Michalski
"Mourning Becomes Electra"
Mourning Becomes Electra at www.boosey.com
Musical Excerpts from the Seattle production
The Great American Opera
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