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The Bassarids

Music Drama in one act by Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman
nach der Tragödie "Die Bakchen" des Euripides
Edition: Matériel d'exécution

Détails du produit

Description

The setting is ancient Thebes. Prior to the opera, Dionysus has stated that he intends to revenge himself upon Agave and the women of Thebes because they have denied his divinity. At the start of the opera, Cadmus, King of Thebes, has abdicated his throne in favour of his son Pentheus. Pentheus has learned of the cult of Dionysus, which involves wild and irrational rites, and decides to ban the cult in his city. A stranger arrives and entices the women into increasingly abandoned celebrations of Dionysus. Pentheus, still unwilling to acknowledge his own Dionysiac impulses, is seduced by the stranger into disguising himself as a woman and going to Mouth Cytheron to observe the women in their sacred revelries. In their frenzy, Agave his mother and Autone his sister sieze Pentheus and tear him limb from limb. Still delirious and unaware, Agave cradles the severed head of her son in her arms. The stranger is revealed to be Dionysus himself.

 "The Bassarids which today I understand to a far greater degree and hold much dearer than when I was composing the work – a hectic and extraordinarily brief period of less than a year, in a form of protest lacking sufficient theoretical basis and in a state of utter loneliness – today I consider this to be my most important music theatre work…It is interesting and modern and still relevant for us and specifically addresses questions associated with the years around 1968: what is freedom and what is bondage? What is repression, what is revolt and what is revolution? This is all in fact displayed, insinuated and suggested by Euripides. The multiplicity and richness of relationships, the tangible sensual relationships between the ancient civilisation of this Archaic period and our time is created in Auden’s text; Euripides is transposed into our time in a manner which could not have been better achieved with the best possible stage production of the original Greek play: through the constant manifestation of the distance to a different civilisation from a time long past."

Orchestral Cast

4 (2. mit B-Fuß, 3. auch Picc., 4. auch Altfl. u. Picc.) · 2 · 2 Engl. Hr. · 4 (3. u. 4. auch Altsax., 4. auch Es-Klar.) · Bassklar. (auch Altsax. u. Tenorsax.) · 4 (4. auch Kfg.) - 6 · 4 (4. auch Basstrp.) · 3 · 2 - P. S. (Glsp. · Xyl. · Vibr. · Marimba · Fingerzimb. · Röhrengl. · 3 Kuhgl. · kl. Trgl. · hg. Beck. · Beckenpaar · 3 Tamt. · kl. Tr. · Mil. Tr. [m. u. o. Schnarrs.] · 3 Tomt. · 3 Bong. · Holztr. · gr. Tr. [m. od. o. Beck.] · Mar. · Peitsche · Ratsche · Metallbl.) (8 Spieler) - 2 Hfn. · Cel. · 2 Klav. - Str. -
Auf der Bühne: 4 Hr. (auch durch Trp. im Orchester ersetzbar) · 2 Git. · 2 Mand. · 3 Kuhgl.

Programmation des personnes

Autonoe · Koloratursopran - Agaue, Kadmos' Tochter und Mutter des Pentheus · dramatischer Mezzosopran - Beroe, eine alte Sklavin · Alt - Dionysos (auch Stimme und Fremdling) · Tenor - Teiresias, ein alter blinder Seher · Tenor - Pentheus, König von Theben · Bariton - Hauptmann der königlichen Wache · lyrischer Bariton - Kadmos · Bass - Bassariden (Mänaden und Bacchanten), Bürger · Chor - Junge Frau, Kind, Wachen, Diener · stumme Rollen

Plus d'infos

Titre:
The Bassarids
Music Drama in one act by Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman
nach der Tragödie "Die Bakchen" des Euripides
Eingerichtet von Helmut Reinold, deutsche Textfassung von Maria Bosse-Sporleder
Langue:
Allemand, Anglais
Edition:
Matériel d'exécution
Maison d'édition:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1964 - 1965 (1992)
Première:
6 août 1966 · Salzburg (A)
Großes Festspielhaus
Salzburger Festspiele 1966
Loren Driscoll, Dionysos; Kostas Paskalis, Pentheus; Peter Lagger, Kadmos; Helmut Melchert, Teiresias; William Dooley, Hauptmann; Kerstin Meyer, Agaue; Ingeborg Hallstein, Autonoe; Vera Little, Beroe; Kerstin Meyer, Venus (Agaue); Ingeborg Hallstein, Proserpina (Autonoe); Helmut Melchert, Kalliope (Teiresias); William Dooley, Adonis (Hauptmann) · Musikalische Leitung: Christoph von Dohnányi · Wiener Philharmoniker · Chor der Wiener Staatsoper · Choreinstudierung: Walter Hagen-Groll
Inszenierung: Gustav Rudolf Sellner · Kostüme: Filippo Sanjust · Bühnenbild: Filippo Sanjust · Choreographie: Deryk Mendel · Ballett der Salzburger Festspiele
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Détails techniques

Type de support:
Matériel en location / d'exécution
Numéro du produit:
LS 2077-01

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