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The Bassarids

The Bassarids

Opera by Hans Werner Henze
The Bassarids is an opera in one act and an intermezzo, with music by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, after Euripides's The Bacchae. Wikipedia
Librettists: W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Written: 1965
First performance: August 6, 1966, Salzburg, Austria
Languages: English and German
Adapted from: The Bacchae