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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