Orpheus

A story in six scenes (two acts)

For speaker and orchestra
Text by Edward Bond

Year of composition 1978
Duration 110 minutes

Orpheus

Orpheus

A story in six scenes (two acts) by Edward Bond

Commissioned by the Württembergisches Staatstheater, Stuttgart

Year of composition 1978
Revised version 1986
Duration 110 Minuten

Dedicated to the…

Orpheus

Orpheus behind the Wire

Poems by Edward Bond

For 8– to 12–part mixed chorus a cappella (SSS AAA TTT BBB)

Year of composition 1981-83
Duration 17 minutes

I What was hell like?
II The point to be…

Orpheus behind the Wire

Orpheus' Grave (Le Tombeau d'Orphée)

Short ballet by Ovid

for the Berlin avantgarde theatre "Badewanne"

for narrator, clarinet, percussion, guitar and double bass

 

Year of composition 1950

Orpheus' Grave (Le Tombeau d'Orphée)

Orpheus’ Arias (Arien des Orpheus)

For guitar, harp, harpsichord and strings

Year of composition 1979
Duration 18 minutes

I Orpheus’ first air
II Lament, Orpheus’ second air
III General…

Orpheus’ Arias (Arien des Orpheus)

Ouverture to a Theatre (Ouverture zu einem Theater)

Commissioned by Deutsche Oper Berlin
Funded by Ernst von Siemens-Musikstiftung

Year of composition 2012
Duration 6 minutes

Ouverture to a Theatre (Ouverture zu einem Theater)

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