Orphée aux Enfers (OEK critical edition: 1874 version)
(Orpheus in der Unterwelt / Orpheus in the Underworld) (1874)Opéra-féerie in four acts (12 scenes)
Duration: 180'
Music Text
Libretto by Hector Crémieux (with the collaboration of Ludovic Halévy); original German version by Ludwig Kalisch, adapted and completed by Frank Harders-Wuthenow; new German versions by Wolfgang Quetes or Günter Selling; new English version by Richard Duployen (F,G,E)
Scoring
9S,S(M),M,7T,2T(Bar),3B; chorus; ballet;
2(II=picc).2.2.2-2.2.3.0-timp.perc(2):BD/TB/cym/tamb/tgl-strings; on-stage:fl.picc-2tpt.3trbn.ophicleide-perc:BD/SD/cym
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Opera
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Publisher
Bote & Bock
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Availability
World Premiere
07/02/1874
Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris
unknown
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