Antigone - Adaptations

Adaptations

The story of Antigone has been a popular subject for books, plays, and other works, including:

  • The Antigone, one of the three extant Theban plays by Sophocles (497 BC – 406 BC) - The most famous adaptation
  • Antigone, a play by Euripides (ca. 480 – 406 BC) which is now lost except for some fragments
  • Antigona, opera by Tommaso Traetta, libretto by Marco Coltellini (1772)
  • Antigona, opera by Josef Mysliveček, libretto by Gaetano Roccaforte (1774)
  • Antigone, play by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
  • Antigone, opera by Carl Orff (1895–1982)
  • Antigone, play by Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)
  • "Antigone-Legend", for soprano and piano (text by Bertolt Brecht), by Frederic Rzewski (b. 1938)
  • Αντιγόνη (Antigone), opera by Mikis Theodorakis (b. 1925)
  • Antigone (1990/1991), opera by Ton de Leeuw (b. 1926)
  • Antígona Furiosa (Furious Antigone), play by Griselda Gambaro (b. 1928)
  • "The Island", play by Athol Fugard (b. 1932)
  • La Pasión Según Antígona Pérez ( (The) Passion according to Antigone Pérez), adaptation of Sophocles by Puerto Rican writer Luis Rafael Sánchez (b. 1936), updated to 20th century Latin America
  • Antígona, play by Salvador Espriu (1939)
  • Tegonni, An African Antigone by Femi Osofisan (b. 1946)
  • Antigone, adaptation of Sophocles' play by Peruvian poet José Watanabe (b. 1946)
  • Antigone, opera by Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
  • Antigone, comic book by David Hopkins (b. 1977)
  • Antigone by Henry Bauchau
  • Antigone's Red (2002), a short play by Chiori Miyagawa
  • The Burial at Thebes (2004) by Seamus Heaney, adapted into a 2008 opera with music by Dominique Le Gendre.
  • Antigone, play by Mac Wellman
  • Antígona Vélez (1950) adaptation of Sophocles' play by Argentinean writer Leopoldo Marechal (1900–1970)
  • Antigonai (2009) an opera based on fragments by Sophocles and Hölderlin for three choirs and a women trio by Argentine composer Carlos Stella
  • Antigone by Bertolt Brecht, based on the translation by Friedrich Hölderlin and published under the title Antigonemodell 1948.
  • Antigone, play by Antonio D'Alfonso (2004)
  • Antigone, play by Don Taylor http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/9303336/Antigone-National-Theatre-review.html

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