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Offenbach: Orpheus in new Keck edition

(February 2001)

The recently launched Offenbach critical edition, published by Boosey & Hawkes/Bote & Bock, is gathering momentum as opera houses increasingly embrace it for new stage productions. The edition is a collaborative venture with the French musicologist and conductor Jean-Christophe Keck, president of the French Offenbach Research Centre. 150 years after the composer’s death, materials remain in a state of disarray and performances are often hampered by the confusing range of variants and lack of definitive full scores. It is these problems that the critical edition sets out to address, returning the opéras bouffes to a state which reflects the composer’s original intentions.

First into the limelight is Orphée aux enfers, which has seen nine new productions using the critical edition in the last two seasons, including the Landestheater Innsbruck in a production by Brigitte Fassbaender, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Kassel Staatstheater. A vocal score of the 1858 version will be published in time for the Frankfurt Fair, followed shortly by a CD-ROM containing a history of the work, an editorial report, the librettos in French, German and English, and an extensive iconography. The first-ever full score of Orphée, also containing the CD-ROM, is scheduled for this summer, with scores of La vie parisienne planned for the autumn.

La vie parisienne was staged using the new edition last year in Gelsenkirchen and Brno, with a further production by Edmund Gleede opening in Stockholm on 30 March. Opera Theatre of Saint Louis will be using the edition for its staging in May/June of La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, including the first performance of the original Act II finale banned by the censor for its anti-militaristic stance.

Publications in the Offenbach critical edition are available on sale by subscription – for a subscription form with full background information please contact us by email. Performance and perusal materials are available from Boosey & Hawkes hire libraries and agents worldwide.

> Weitere Informationen zur Reihe: OEK (Offenbach Edition Keck)
> Weitere Informationen zum Werk: Orphée aux Enfers (OEK critical edition: 1858 version)
> Weitere Informationen zu Orphée aux Enfers (1858) (OEK)

Photo: Orphée aux enfers in the Innsbruck production by Brigitte Fassbaender. Credit: Rupert Levi

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