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The One-Act Operas of Nicolae Bretan
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While many artists enjoyed free
expression and prospered during the twentieth
century, others were
stifled by suppressive rulers and regimes. The
latter was the case with the Romanian composer,
singer, and opera director, Nicolae Bretan. In
1947, the Communists demanded Bretan join the
Communist Party of Romania (the PCR). Even after
repeated demands and threats, Bretan refused to join
the PCR and remained true to his family, friends and
his own principles. In response, the PCR
declared him a "non-person" and Nicolae Bretan, well
known to the Romanian and Hungarian public as a
singer, stage director, and promising
composer, was silenced. Before his death in 1968,
Bretan composed
three one-act operas, "Luceafãrul", "Golem",
and "Arald", and the Romanian National
Opera, "Horia", an opera in four acts. He
also composed
over 200 art songs in Romanian, Hungarian, and
German and several sacred works including a Requiem.
Thanks
to the tireless
efforts of his daughter Judit,
Bretan's music is emerging from exile and is being
heard in a free
Romania and across the world.
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