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Production

Bakxai (1992)

APGRD id
1501
Start date
5th May 1992
Production Media
Opera, Musical, and related genres
Languages
  • Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
  • English
Associated ancient works
Bacchai (Euripides)
Scripts:
Bacchae (William Arrowsmith)
Companies
English National Opera (ENO)
APGRD Notes
The libretto for this opera includes the ancient Greek text and some passages from Arrowsmith's translation of the play.
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/1501
Related Content
Person Credit Notes
Julia Hollander Director
John Buller Composer
Venue Country Dates APGRD Notes Festival
Coliseum (London, Greater London, England) England world première
Title Year Format Content
At once ancient and modern: Bakxai, sung in Greek by ENO, opens this week Article
Bergman's Bacchae - Stockholm Review
Classical chorus-line Article
Critics Review
It's all Greek to them Article
John Buller Newspaper cutting obituary
Sarah Walker (Agave) B&W photograph
The Bacchae Programme
Title Contributors Year Format Pagination
Antike Dramentheorien und ihre Rezeption Bernhard Zimmermann Book
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium Katharine Worth, Amanda Wrigley, Lorna Hardwick, Kathleen Riley, Pantelis Michelakis, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Helene Foley, Froma I. Zeitlin, Peter G. McC. Brown, David Wiles, Fiona Macintosh, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Timberlake Wertenbaker (1951-) Book