Oresteia (Taneyev, Sergei)

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Publisher Info.:

Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff, 1900. Plate 2104.

Copyright:

Public Domain

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Taneyev: Orchestral Works - Oresteia OvertureTaneyev, Novosobirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra, Sanderling, ...
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General Information

Work Title Oresteia
Alternative Title Орестея
Composer Taneyev, Sergei
Number of Movements/Sections 3 parts (i.e., acts), 8 tableaux
Year/Date of Composition 1887–94
Year of First Publication 1900
Librettist Aleksey Alekseyevich Venkstern (1856–1909)
Language Russian; published also with French and German texts by Michel Delines and Hans Schmidt, respectively.
Dedication In memory of
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829–94).
Genre Opera
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation Voices with Orchestra
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Misc. Comments

NOTE: Taneyev's concert overture entitled Oresteia, Op.6 (composed in 1889, published in Leipzig, 1897), contains some themes that appear in the opera. It is not included in the piano-vocal score.

Contents

  • Part 1: "Agamemnon"
    • Introduction
    • Tableau 1
      • No. 1. Scene (guard)
      • No. 2. Scene (Chorus of women, Clytaemnestra)
      • No. 3. Scene (Clytaemnestra, chorus of people)
      • No. 4. Scene (Narrative of Aegisthus. Duet)
    • Tableau 2
      • No. 5. March with chorus
      • No. 6. Scene (Agamemenon and chorus of warriors)
      • No. 7. Scene and duet (Clytaemnestra and Agamemnon)
      • No. 8. Scene of Cassandra with chorus (Clytaemnestra, Cassandra, chorus of people)
        • Arioso of Cassandra with chorus
      • No. 9 Scene (Clytaemnestra and chorus)
      • No. 10. Concluding scene (Aegisthus, Clytaemnestra, bodyguards, people)
  • Part 2: "The Libation-Bearers"
    • Tableau 1
      • No. 11. Recitative and arioso of Clytaemnestra
      • No. 12. Scene (shade of Agamemnon, Clytaemnestra, later a female chorus)
      • No. 13. Recitative and duet with chorus (Clytaemnestra, Elektra, and female chorus)
    • Tableau 2
      • No. 14. Scene (Orestes)
      • No. 15. Scene (Orestes with chorus of women)
      • No. 16. Scene (Elektra and chorus of women)
      • No. 17. Scene and duet (Elektra, Orestes, and chorus of women)
    • Tableau 3
      • No. 18. Scene (Orestes and slave)
      • No. 19. Quartet (Elektra, Clytaemnestra, Orestes, Aegisthus)
      • No. 20. Scene (slave and Clytaemnestra)
      • No. 21. Scene and duet (Clytaemnestra and Orestes)
      • No. 22. Concluding scene (Orestes and chorus)
  • Part 3: "The Eumenides"
    • Tableau 1
      • No. 23. Entr'acte and scene (Orestes and Furies)
    • Tableau 2
      • No. 24. Entr'acte
      • No. 25. Scene (Orestes, Furies [offstage], later Apollo)
    • Tableau 3
      • No. 26. Entr'acte and chorus of Athenians
      • No. 27. Scene (Orestes and chorus)
      • No. 28. Procession of areopagites
      • No. 29. Scene (Orestes and an Areopagite)
      • No. 30. Concluding scene (Athena, Orestes, Areopagites, people)
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