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Gormenghast

Music by Irmin Schmidt · libretto by Duncan Fallowell · premiered 1998

Gormenghast is an opera in three acts composed by Irmin Schmidt to an English-language libretto by Duncan Fallowell, based on Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy. It premiered at the Opernhaus Wuppertal on 15 November 1998.

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About the Composer

Irmin Schmidt is the composer of record for this opera.

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