Daphne (opera)
Year Cast : Daphne , Leukippos , Apollo , Paneios , Gaea Conductor , Opera House and Orchestra Label
1944 Maria Reining , Anton Dermota , Karl Friedrich , Herbert Alsen , Melanie Frutschnigg Karl Böhm , Wiener Staatsoper ( Vienna ) Wiener Staatsoperchor and Wiener Philharmoniker , live CD : Walhall Eternity Seriess Cat : WLCD 0147
1948 Rose Bampton , Anton Dermota , Set Svanholm , Ludwig Weber , Lydia Kindermann Erich Kleiber , Teatro Colón ( Buenos Aires ) Orchestra and Chorus , live CD : Preiser Records Cat : 90371
1950 Anneliese Kupper , Hans Hopf , Georg Hann , Georg Hann , Res Fischer Eugen Jochum , Bavarian State Orchestra and chorus CD : Preiser Records Cat : 90487
1964 Hilde Güden , Fritz Wunderlich , James King , Paul Schöffler Vera Little Karl Böhm , Vienna Symphony and Vienna State Opera chorus CD ( with cuts ) : Deutsche Grammophon Cat : 445 322-2
1982 Lucia Popp , Peter Schreier , Reiner Goldberg , Kurt Moll , Ortrun Wenkel Bernard Haitink , Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra CD ( First uncut complete recording ) : EMI Classics Cat : CDS 7 49309-2
2005 Renée Fleming , Michael Schade , Johan Botha , Kwangchul Youn , Anna Larsson Semyon Bychkov , West Deutscher Rundfunk ( WDR ) orchestra and men 's chorus ( Recorded at the Kölner Philharmonie , 28 February - 12 March 2005 ) CD : Decca Cat : 475 6926
2005 June Anderson , Robert Sacca , Scott Mac Allister , Daniel Lewis Williams , Birgit Remmert Stefan Anton Reck , Teatro La Fenice orchestra and chorus ( Audio and video recordings made at performances in the Teatro La Fenice , June ) CD : Dynamic Cat : 499/1 Video DVD : Dynamic Cat.33499
Recordings
Daphne, Op. 82, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, subtitled Bucolic Tragedy in One Act. The German libretto was by Joseph Gregor. The opera is based loosely on the mythological figure Daphne from Ovid's Metamorphoses and includes elements taken from The Bacchae by Euripides. The opera premiered at the Semperoper in Dresden on 15 October 1938, originally intended as a double bill with Strauss' Friedenstag, but as the scale of Daphne grew, that idea was abandoned. The conductor of the first performance was Karl Böhm, to whom the opera was dedicated.