''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 Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

poem Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

" written by Spanish surrealist painter

Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarr ...

, based on a libretto by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán with music by French avant-garde musician Igor Wakhévitch. It was originally published in 1985. The six-part work features Dalí as God,

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as an artichoke and

Catherine the Great , en, Catherine Alexeievna Romanova, link=yes , house = , father = Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst , mother = Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp , birth_date = , birth_name = Princess Sophie of Anhal ...

and

Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; 1 June 1926 4 August 1962) was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic " blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as wel ...

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

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after being seized after Colombian drug lords tried to use the painting to launder money. Tracklist: A. Ouverture Et Première Entrée 22:12 B. Deuxième Entrée Ou La Lutte Avec L'Ange 22:12 C. Troisième Entrée Et Première Sortie 24:25 D. Le Rêve Passe 23:33 E. Quatrième Entrée Ou La Profession De Foi 27:42 F. Final Et Seconde Sortie 25:00 Credits * Composed By – Igor Wakhévitch, M. Vázquez Montalban*, Pierre Delabre, Salvador Dalí * Conductor – Boris de Vinogradow * Drums – François Auger * Electric Bass – Didier Batard * Electric Guitar – J.J. Flety*, J.P. Castelain* * Engineer – Claude Wagner * Engineer ssistant– A. Robert Bourdet* * Orchestra – Ensemble Polyphonique De Paris Et Orchestre* * Painting nsert– Salvador Dalí * Percussion olo– Sylvio Gualda * Soprano Vocals – Eve Brenner * Synthesizer – Igor Wakhévitch * Violin lectric– M. Ripoche* * Voice Actor l Divino Dalí– Salvador Dalí * Voice Actor l Narrador Y El Recitador– Didier Haudepin * Voice Actor l Ángel– Alain Cuny * Voice Actor l– Raymond Gérôme * Voice Actor lla– Delphine Seyrig * Voice Actor a Narradora– Catherine Allegret Recorded at Pathé Marconi studios, Boulogne, France.

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