Die Liebe der Danae (The Love of Danae) is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a February 1937 German libretto by Joseph Gregor, based on an outline written in 1920, "Danae, or The Marriage of Convenience", by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Strauss worked on the score in 1937, 1938 and into 1939, although he was pre-occupied with completing Daphne, developing ideas with Gregor and finally replacing him as librettist for Capriccio, and then succumbed to illness, which caused postponement for several months into 1940. The opera was finally finished on 28 June 1940.
Original Name | Die Liebe der Danae |
Librettist | Joseph Gregor |
Date of composition | 1940 (1938-1940) |
Premiered | 1944, August 16th in Salzburg, Austria |
First published | 1944 |
Type | Opera |
Catalogue | TrV 278 |
Approx. duration | 180 minutes |
Spoken language | German |
Instruments |
Voice (Baritone)
- Jupiter
Voice (Soprano) - Danae, his daughter Voice (Soprano) - Xanthe, her servant Voice (Soprano) - Queen Semele Voice (Soprano) - Queen Europa Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Queen Alkmene Voice (Contralto) - Queen Leda Chorus/Choir Orchestra 2x Voice (Bass) - King, nephew to Pollux 2x Voice (Tenor) - King, nephew to Pollux |
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