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The Bassarids

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The Bassarids (in German, Die Bassariden) is an opera in one act and an intermezzo by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W H Auden and Chester Kallman after Euripides's The Bacchae.

Performance history

It was first performed in a German translation by Maria Basse-Sporleder in Salzburg on 6 August 1966. The first performance using the original English text was in Santa Fe on 7 August 1968. It was also given in London on 22 September 1968.


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