page_title: A Hand of Bridge
hierarchical_section_title: A Hand of Bridge
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Samuel Barber Deutsch: Samuel Barber im Jahr 1944Portrait of Samuel Barber
context_page_description: A Hand of Bridge, opus 35, is an opera in one act composed by Samuel Barber with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and is possibly the shortest opera that is regularly performed: it lasts about nine minutes. It premiered as a part of Menotti’s Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto on 17 June 1959 at the Teatro Caio Melisso. The United States premiere occurred the next year. The opera consists of two unhappily married couples playing a hand of bridge, during which each character has an arietta in which he or she professes his or her inner desires.
  Andy Warhol, a good friend of Barber's, designed the cover for the opera's vocal score.
context_section_description: A Hand of Bridge, opus 35, is an opera in one act composed by Samuel Barber with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and is possibly the shortest opera that is regularly performed: it lasts about nine minutes. It premiered as a part of Menotti’s Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto on 17 June 1959 at the Teatro Caio Melisso. The United States premiere occurred the next year. The opera consists of two unhappily married couples playing a hand of bridge, during which each character has an arietta in which he or she professes his or her inner desires.
  Andy Warhol, a good friend of Barber's, designed the cover for the opera's vocal score.
caption: The composer in 1944
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