- 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 painterSalvador Dalí , based on a libretto byManuel Vázquez Montalbán with music by French avant-garde musicianIgor Wakhévitch . It was originally published in 1985. [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH - Biography | date= | publisher=The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation | url =http://www.salvador-dali.org/media/upload/arxius/biografia_dali_english.pdf | work = | pages =14 | accessdate = 2007-10-14 ]The six-part work features Dali as God,
Brigitte Bardot as an artichoke andCatherine the Great andMarilyn Monroe do a striptease. It has been published in a rare 3 CD box-set 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 theUnited States Customs Service after being seized after Colombian drug lords tried to use the painting to launder money.cite news | first=Ralph | last=Blumenthal | coauthors= | title= U.S. Customs Service Joins Art Market | date=1995-05-18 | publisher= | url =http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE6D8153FF93BA25756C0A963958260 | work =The New York Times | pages = | accessdate = 2007-10-14 | language = ]References
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