Orphée aux Enfers (OEK critical edition: 1874 version)

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)

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

Comic, Poetic