Six Characters in Search of an Author

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In Hugo Weisgall
…completed his first full-length opera, Six Characters in Search of an Author, an adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s play by that name. His next opera, Purgatory (1958), based on a poem by William Butler Yeats, marked his first attempt at 12-tone composition, an atonal musical style that characterized much of his…
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