Scenic Oratorios – Persephone
Melodrama in three parts by André Gide
Music by Igor Stravinsky
PREMIERE
- 15 August 1955, 20:00
- 21 August 1955, 20:00
- 28 August 1955, 20:00
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Margarete Wallmann, Choreography
Ernst Märzendorfer, Dirigent
Nicola Benois, Stage Sets
Nicola Benois, Costumes
Vera Zorina, Persephone
Waldemar Kmentt, Eumolpos
Hélène Trailine, Demeter
Boris Trailine, Merkur
Victor Ferrari, Pluto
Wladimir Oukthomsky, Triptolemos
Lucia Bräuer, Brenda Hamlyn, Shades
Angelo Pietri, Walter Scherer, Alberto Testa, Wilfried Fränzl, Richard Novotny, Constantin Zajetz, Servants of Pluto
Traude Brexner, Sabine Leblanc, Day and Night
Sabine Leblanc, Nymph
Deryk Mendel, Young Man
Walter Scherer, Genius of death
Marianne Hoppe, Narrator
Ballet of the Vienna State Opera
Mozarteum Orchestra