Être Dieu

Être Dieu: opéra-poème, audiovisuel et cathare en six parties (French for "Being God: a Cathar Audiovisual Opera-Poem in Six Parts") is a self-proclaimed "opera-poem" written by Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, based on a libretto by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán with music by French avant-garde musician Igor Wakhévitch. It was originally published in 1985.^[1]

The six-part work features Dalí as God, Brigitte Bardot as an artichoke and Catherine the Great and Marilyn Monroe do a striptease. It has been published in an extremely rare 3 LP box-set by a Spanish label. It was re-released in a regular 3CD box published by German-label Eurostar who subsequently went out of business, and there are few-to-no known performances of the work. Dalí painted "Self-Portrait" (1972) to mark the composition of the opera, which was later auctioned by the United States Customs Service after being seized after Colombian drug lords tried to use the painting to launder money.^[2]

References

↑ "SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH - Biography" (PDF). The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation. p. 14. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
↑ Blumenthal, Ralph (1995-05-18). "U.S. Customs Service Joins Art Market". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-10-14.

Salvador Dalí

List of works

Selected paintings	Landscape Near Figueras (1910) Vilabertran (1913) Cabaret Scene (1922) Portrait of my father (1925) The Basket of Bread (1926) Apparatus and Hand (1927) The Lugubrious Game (1929) The First Days of Spring (1929) The Great Masturbator (1929) The Persistence of Memory (1931) The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934) Morphological Echo (1934–36) Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) The Burning Giraffe (1937) Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938) Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939) The Face of War (1940) Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940) Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943) Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944) Basket of Bread (1945) The Apotheosis of Homer (1945) The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946) The Elephants (1948) Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio (1949) Leda Atomica (1949) The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949) A Logician Devil (1951) Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951) Galatea of the Spheres (1952) The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–54) Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954) Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954) The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955) Living Still Life (1956) The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (1958–59) The Ecumenical Council (1959–60) Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (1963) Tuna Fishing (1966–67) The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–70) La Toile Daligram (1972) The Swallow's Tail (1983)

Other artworks	Lobster Telephone (1936) Mae West Lips Sofa (1937) Rainy Taxi (1938)

Writings	Un Chien Andalou (1929, co-author) L'Age d'Or (1930, co-author) Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937) Libretto for Bacchanale (1939) The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942, autobiography)

Films	Un Chien Andalou (1929) L'Age d'Or (1930) Spellbound (1945, dream sequence)

Animated films	Destino (1946, completed 2003)

Logos	Chupa Chups

Opera	Être Dieu (1985)

Costumes	costumes for García Lorca's play Mariana Pineda (1927)

Related articles	Castle of Púbol Dali crater Dalí Theatre and Museum Dalí Universe Espace Dalí Gala Dalí Salvador Dalí Museum Salvador Dalí (film) Little Ashes Paranoiac-critical method

Salvador Dali opera images

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