HENZE Die Bassariden [1966] 2 discs Orfeo DOHNANYI Premiere Performance Salzburg For Sale
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HENZE Die Bassariden [1966] 2 discs Orfeo DOHNANYI Premiere Performance Salzburg:
$29.95
Henze\'s Die Bassariden is an opera in one act and an intermezzo to an English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, after Euripides\'s The Bacchae.
It was first performed in a German translation by Maria Basse-Sporleder in Salzburg on 6 August 1966 conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi. A recording of this performance is offered here.
HANS WERNER HENZE(1926-2012)Die Bassariden
- Dionysos - Loren Driscoll
- Pentheus - Kostas Paskalis
- Kadmos - Peter Lagger
- Teiresias • Kalliope - Helmut Melchert
- Hauptmann • Adonis - William Dooley
- Agaue • Venus - Kerstin Meyer
- Autonoe • Prosperina - Ingeborg Hallstein
- Beroe - Vera Little
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductorChor der Wiener StaatsoperWiener Philharmoniker
LIVE Recording : 6 August 1966 premiere performance [in German]
The first performance using the original English text by Auden and Kallman was the US premiere, at the Santa Fe Opera on 7 August 1968
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