The Bassarids
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The Bassarids (in German, Die Bassariden) is an opera in one act and an intermezzo by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman after Euripides's The Bacchae.
[edit] Performance history
It was first performed in a German translation by Maria Basse-Sporleder in Salzburg on 6 August 1966. The first performance using the original English text was in Santa Fe on 7 August 1968. It was also given in London on 22 September 1968.
[edit] Discography
- Armstrong, Riegel; Albrecht, 1986 (koch schwann)