The Evening Star: Prelude

Composer: BRETAN, Nicolae
  • This work is the prelude to Bretan’s opera Luceafărul [pronunciation](The Evening Star), op. 1.1
  • Thie opera was composed in 1921, and it premiered in 1921 at the Romanian Opera.2
  • The Evening Star was the first opera to be written in Romanian.3

Sources

  1. David Griffioen, “Bretan, Nicolae,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 12, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000045042.
  2. Ibid.
  3. “Nicolae Bretan,”The Nicolae Bretan Foundation, accessed August 12, 2019, http://www.nicolaebretanmusicfoundation.org/about-nicolae-bretan.

Cut IDs

14958