Agamemnon's death
Agamemnon's Death is a ballet in four acts, which was re-staged by Rudolf von Laban in 1924 and is based on the libretto of The Avenged Agamemnon by Jean-Georges Noverre , composed in Vienna in 1772 . It is designed as a dance game with a movement choir, the music consists of drum rhythms. The world premiere took place on June 24, 1924 by the Laban dance stage in Sagebiel's establishment at the Drehbahn in Hamburg .
Noverre's production, which has been described as a reform of classical ballet, offered a pantomime interpretation of the Oresty's tragedy and saw in the external processes of the drama the framework for the representation of an internal process, i.e. a kind of guide. Laban took up this basis, but he strived for a purely dance performance in which the myth was translated into spatial tension. Hertha Feist was a well- known dancer in this production .
In addition to numerous stage adaptations of the Orestie tragedy based on Aeschylus , the following choreographies became well known:
- Jean-Georges Noverre: The avenged Agamemnon , with music by Franz Aspelmayr , Vienna 1772
- Francesco Clerico : Il ritorno d'Agamennone , Florence, 1821
- Martha Graham : Clytemnestra , with the music of Halim El-Dabh , 1958.
literature
- Otto Friedrich Regner: The new ballet book , Hamburg 1962
Web links
- Agamemnons Tod (1924) in: Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama