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Pallas Athene Weint

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The first broadcast performance of Ernst Krenek's opera (1955) about the downfall of Athenian democracy at the end of the Peloponnesian Wars.
(sung in German)

(Austrian Radio recording)

Contributors

Composer:
Ernst Krenek
Singers:
Austrian Radio Chorus
Musicians:
Austrian Radio Orchestra
Conductor:
Pinchas Steinberg
Pallas Athene:
Ute Trekel-Burkhardt
Socrates:
Gunther Reich
Alcibiades:
Ronald Hamilton
Meletos:
Wolfgang Muller-Lorenz
Meton:
Michael Kraus
Althaea, a priestess:
Ingrid Bjoner
Nauarchos:
Thomas Lander
Agis II, King of Sparta:
Jaroslav Stajnz
Timaea, his queen:
Gabriele Lechner
Lysander, Spartan general and statesman:
Anton Steingruber
Brasidas, a general:
Michael Kraus
Ktesippos, his son:
John Dickie
Source: Radio Times

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