Scenic Oratorios – La Danse des Morts
Text by Paul Claudel
Music by Arthur Honegger
The ballet was staged after Persephone on the same evening.
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, Conductor
Gustav Vargo, Stage Sets
Stefan Hlawa, Nicola Benois, Costumes
Karl Blühm, Narrator
Hilde Zadek, Soprano
Vera Presti, Mezzosoprano
Otto Wiener, Baritone
Ballet of the Vienna State Opera
Choir of the Vienna State Opera
Mozarteum Orchestra