Prints: P1084

Poster for 'The Bassarids' at the London Coliseum

Werner Henze, Hans
Euripides

London Coliseum (London, England)

height: 76cm
width: 101cm

Poster

"THE BASSARIDS" "British Première / The Bassarids / Hans Werner Henze / First night October 10 7.00 / October 16 19 28 31 / November 4 6 7.30 / Seats frojm 50p to £3.20 / Box Office 01-836 3161" "Based on Euripides' 'The Bacchae', Henze's opera / 'The Bassarids' concerns the arrival of the wild cult of / Dionysus in the city of Thebes and the attempts of the / puritanical King Pentheus to oppress its orgiastic / rituals. In doing so, however, he ignores the natural / Dionysian instincts in himself, and the opera shows / the tragically destructive results his repression / brings on himself, his family and his society. The / librettists, W H Auden and Chester Kallman, have / adapted the classical original to underline modern / themes clearly and dramatically, and this is matched / by the heroic scale of conception in Henze's beautiful / score. The result is one of the greatest modern / adaptations of ancient myth and a genuine modern / tragedy that is intensely powerful in its impact." "English National Opera / at the London Coliseum"

Presented by Rupert Rhymes, November 2021.

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Poster advertising Hans Werner Henze's opera 'The Bassarids' performed by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum.