Description
Strauss: Daphne / Tragedy in one act - Libretto by Joseph Gregor / ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF LA FENICE THEATER OF VENICE / Conductor: Stefan Anton Reck / Chorus Master: Emanuela Di Pietro / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 114 Minutes
UPC: 8007144334994
- Aspect Ratio : 16:9
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.44 x 5.39 x 0.63 inches; 3.99 Ounces
- Director : Tiziano Mancini
- Media Format : Subtitled, NTSC
- Release date : October 31, 2006
- Actors : Daniel Lewis Williams, Dominik Eberle, Giuseppe Accolla, June Anderson, Liesl Odenweller
- Subtitles: : English, Italian, Spanish, German, French
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), German (PCM)
- Studio : Dynamic
- Number of discs : 1
Daphne, Op. 82, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, subtitled "Bucolic Tragedy in One Act". The German libretto was by Joseph Gregor. The opera is based loosely on the mythological figure Daphne from Ovid's Metamorphoses and includes elements taken from The Bacchae by Euripides.
The first performance of the opera took place at the Semperoper in Dresden on 15 October 1938. It was originally intended as a double bill with Strauss' Friedenstag, but as the scale of Daphne grew, that idea was abandoned. The conductor of the first performance was Karl Böhm, to whom the opera was dedicated. The United States premiere of the opera was performed on October 10, 1960 in a concert version at Town Hall in Manhattan with Gloria Davy in the title role, Florence Kopleff as Gaea, Robert Nagy as Leukippos, Jon Crain as Apollo, Lawrence Davidson as Peneios, and The Little Orchestra Society under conductor Thomas Scherman.
