Orphée aux Enfers (OEK critical edition: 1858 version)
(1858) (Orpheus in der Unterwelt / Orpheus in the Underworld)Opéra-bouffon in two acts (four scenes)
Duration: 150'
Music Text
Libretto by Hector Crémieux (with the collaboration of Ludovic Halévy); original German version by Ludwig Kalisch; new German versions by Wolfgang Quetes or Günter Selling; new English version by Richard Duployen (F,G,E)
Scoring
5S,2M,4T,Bar,B,actor; chorus; ballet;
2(I,II=picc).1.2.1-2.2.1(or3).0-timp.perc(1):BD/cym/tamb/tgl-strings
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Opera
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World Premiere
21/10/1858
Salle Choiseul, Paris
Unknown
World premiere of version
30/10/1999
Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck
Brigitte Fassbaender, director / Ensemble Tiroler Landestheater / Georg Schmöhe
