general information

composition date
1926-1927
revisition date
1948
duration
53 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes
Libretto (details, author)

de Jean Cocteau d'après Sophocles (traduction du latin par J. Daniélou)

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (3 solo voices or more, choir(s) and orchestra)

detailed formation

Soloist
narrator, solo mezzo-soprano, 2 solo tenors, solo baritone, 3 solo bass voices [ou 2]

3 flutes (also piccolo), contrabassoon, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 2 percussionists, harp, cymbalom, piano, 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (also Eb clarinet), 2 bassoons

information about the creation

date
May 30, 1927

France, Paris, Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt (version concert)

interpreters

l'orchestre des Ballets Russes, direction : Igor Stravinsky.

  • 23 février 1928, version scénique, Autriche, Vienne, Staatsoper, direction : Wallerstein.
  • observations

    La réduction pour piano et voix est de Stravinsky.


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