Shakuntala
Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, NCPA MumbaiThe Unfinished Opera by Franz Schubert (approx. 100 mins) An Austrian Embassy & Jasubhai Foundation Presentation Shakuntala is an unfinished opera in three acts, written in 1820 by Franz Schubert to a libretto by Johann Philipp Neumann. The opera is based on the Sanskrit story of Shakuntala’s love for King Dushyanta and her rejection. In 1789, Kalidas’s Shakuntala was translated by Sir William Jones, reportedly the first Indian play to be translated into a Western language. The famous love story […]
