Igor Stravinsky
Perséphone (Stravinsky)
Perséphone (Persephone) is a musical work (mélodrame) for speaker, solo singers, chorus, dancers and orchestra with music by Igor Stravinsky and a libretto by André Gide. It was first performed under
Roles#
- Eumolpe, tenor René Maison
- Perséphone, ballerina Ida Rubinstein
- Demetra-Dometer, ballerina Krakowska
- Mercure, dancer Anatole Viltzak
- Pluton, dancer
- Démophoon, dancer
Synopsis#
The melodrama tells the story of the Greek goddess Persephone, in three parts:
References#
;Sources * *Holden, Amanda (Ed.). The New Penguin Opera Guide. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001.
Further reading#
*Levitz, Tamara: Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky