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Salzburg Festival 'PENELOPE'

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Opera semiseria in two parts Libretto by Heinrich Strobel
Music by Rolf Liebermann
(first performance) Suitors:
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY GEORGE SZELL
Producer. Oskar Fritz Schuh
(Continued in next column)
The action takes place during the afternoon and evening of the 3,649th day after the end of the Trojan War.
Part 1
A great hall; a villa near Gaeta; the square in Castel Circeo
Interval
Part 2
A great hall; a villa; an imaginary classical landscape

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinrich Strobel
Music By:
Rolf Liebermann
Conducted By:
George Szell
Producer:
Oskar Fritz Schuh
Penelope (soprano):
Christel Goltz
Telemachus (soprano):
Anineliese Rothenberger
Leiocritus (character baritone):
Carl Dönch
Eurymachus (buffo bass):
Walter Berry
Demoptolemus (buffo tenor):
Peter Klein
Hercules (lyric tenor):
Rudolf Schock
Achilles (baritone):
Theo Bayle
A messenger (tenor):
Hans Krotthammer
The Mayor of Castel Circeo (dramatictenor):
Max Lorenz
Odysseus (baritone):
Kurt Böhme
Source: Radio Times

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